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palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Sharm Al-Sheikh on 8/2/2005. He was able to tell him that a ceasefire with the Israelis can now be maintained based on his agreement with the other Palestinian resistance factions. Palestinians have shown their commitment to the agreement while Israelis continued their assaults and violations in different forms and scale. Abbas succeeded in convincing the Palestinians, in a meeting in Cairo on 17th March, to extend the ceasefire till the end of 2005. Such agreement was part of a deal amongst the different factions, the PLO, and the PNA under Egyptian supervision, becoming later known as the Cairo Declaration. Since Sharm Al-Shaikh Israeli troops made (1990) violations of the ceasefire through the period 8/2-11/4/2005 (nine weeks), a rate of 221 violations a week (31 violations per day). The violations included different assaults. Israeli soldiers carried out 695 incursions of Palestinian villages and towns. They dug up thousands of donums through 51 actions. They fired on Palestinians more than 560 times resulting in tens of casualties. They blocked, closed borders and closed the ‘separation wall’ gates more than 819 times. They also bulldozed five Palestinian houses. On other hand, Jewish settlers (Para-military soldiers-militia) assaulted Palestinians and their property about 43 times. Such continued violation clearly risks the toppling of the ceasefire and the recreation of a new and bloody cycle of conflict that threatens the security and stability of the region.
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