Egypt has invited the Israeli and Palestinian organizations in separate talks

Egypt has invited representatives of the authorities of the Palestinian Authority and Israel to hold separate meetings on 22 January, to discuss the Egyptian initiative to achieve a sustainable ceasefire, said NEWSru Israel with reference to the Egyptian agency MENA.

"Egypt has invited the Israeli and Palestinian organizations to hold separate meetings with the Egyptian side in Cairo on Thursday," - MENA quoted unnamed sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt.

Meanwhile, yet unknown whether the Palestinian and Israeli sides invitations to a new round of talks brokered by Egypt.

Recall last Sunday in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh has been an international emergency summit on the situation in the Gaza Strip, under the chairmanship of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Late in the evening of January 17, Israel had unilaterally ceased hostilities in the Gaza Strip, completing a three-week operation against Palestinian militants, which claimed the lives of 1.3, thousands of Palestinians (in the Palestinian data) and 13 Israelis.

In the middle of the next day and Hamas, along with other Palestinian factions declared a ceasefire. But despite this, in part, Israeli troops are still in the Palestinian enclave and retain the right to respond to Palestinian attacks, and the shelling of Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip continued for some time after the announcement of Hamas on a cease-fire.

How many will continue the ceasefire, it is not clear. Hamas said that "gives the week" for Israel to withdraw troops from Gaza. The government of Israel acting unilaterally and make clear that the army was ready at any moment to cause new strikes against terrorists. Egyptian mediators, seem to aspire to, it was agreed that "" (calm) for a period of six months, writes NEWSru Israel.

Prior began the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. As of the morning on 19 January in Gaza remain divisions of reservists. Units returned to Israeli territory, remain at bases near the border.

The main objectives of "Operation Cast lead" Israel has announced the cessation of rocket attacks and arms smuggling into the Palestinian enclave. The first tasks of the Israeli authorities to see the weakening of the Hamas military means and the establishment of a "deterrent", the second - to obtain adequate guarantees from the United States, Egypt and European countries.

For 22 days the anti-terrorist operation "Cast lead" in the Gaza Strip, IDF (IDF) had eliminated hundreds of tunnels along the border of Egypt and the sector is almost completely destroyed the infrastructure of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, killed at least 500 fighters (and a few hundred fighters of other organizations ) and a number of leaders of the group, thousands of fighters were wounded. This loss of IDF: 10 killed, around 150 injured (of which about 10 were seriously injured).

At the same time, many publications in the Israeli media today draws attention to the fact that the declared goals before the anti-terrorist operation "Cast lead" had not been fully implemented, because Hamas has retained the ability to cause the rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli territory, and has at present day, hundreds of homemade rockets and dozens of missiles, "Grad". In doing so, yet it remains unclear how to ensure an end to the smuggling of weapons into Gaza and arms production in the sector.

Sami war, which had in January 2009 in Gaza, saying that the war was prepared much better than war with Hezbollah in summer 2006. The military noted that the operation "Cast lead was carefully planned and took place as planned. Emphasizes that this time, almost no problems with the army.

Meanwhile, leaders of the Israeli General Security Service and Military Intelligence believes that soon Hamas will try to "equal the score and give to another unpleasant surprise to Israel. According to estimates by Israeli secret services, "Hamas is able to within a few months' lull," to restore the system of tunnels along the border of Gaza and Egypt and the resumption of arms smuggling.