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Israel
'consulted' with Egypt, Fatah before Gaza offensive
Monday November 29, 2010 08:46:38 AM ,
DPA
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Tel Aviv:
Israel consulted with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas' Fatah party prior to launching its offensive against Hamas
in the Gaza Strip at the end of 2008, classified US diplomatic
cables unveiled Sunday have revealed.
According to a cable sent from Tel Aviv and dated June 2, 2009,
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told a visiting US
Congressional delegation that Israel had asked whether Egypt or
Fatah would be willing to assume control of the Gaza Strip once
Hamas was defeated.
"Not surprisingly, Barak said, the GOI (Government of Israel)
received negative answers from both," the cable said.
The cable did not quote Barak as giving any other details of the
consultations Israel held with Cairo and Ramallah.
Israel launched its offensive against the Islamist Hamas and its
allied militias at the end of 2008, following a spate of rocket
attacks on Israeli towns and villages adjacent to the salient.
About 1,400 Palestinians, including civilians, were killed in the
war, according to Palestinian human rights organisations, which
also caused massive devastation in the enclave.
The hundreds of thousands of classified US documents were made
public Sunday.
The New York Times, Guardian and German magazine Der Spiegel along
with newspapers in France and Spain obtained the documents from
self-proclaimed whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, which has
refused to identify its source.
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