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Militants told to end rocket attacks From correspondents in Gaza City February 25, 2003
THE Palestinian leadership has called on militant groups to stop firing home-made rockets at Israel, saying they are creating pretexts for heavy-handed retaliation.
It also again urged all factions to sign up to a proposed moratorium on attacks against Israel before intra-Palestinian talks in Cairo next week.
"It is necessary to stop launching rockets ... on zones within the Green Line because of ... savage acts of vengeance (by the Israeli army)," the leadership said following its weekly meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah chaired by leader Ya$$er Arafat.
"These rockets have no use for the resistance and have not resulted in any Israeli army or (Jewish) settler casualties."
The statement was carried by the official WAFA news agency.
Three people were wounded on February 19 in the southern Israeli town of Siderot by home-made rockets fired by Hamas militants from the northern Gaza Strip.
Since then the Israeli army has staged a series of heavy handed raids into the area. It quit the northern town of Beit Hanun today after a 48 hour reoccupation which left six Palestinians dead and 20 injured, as well as causing massive damage to infrastructure.
Hamas defiantly fired five more rockets around Siderot yesterday, causing no casualties or damage.
The leadership, which comprises the cabinet and the executive of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), urged all factions to accept an Egyptian proposal for a one-year end to anti-Israeli attacks before the Cairo talks.
"Any negative position towards the Egyptian proposal or a refusal to participate in the dialogue could undermine our cause and the future of our struggle," it said.
"It is not realistic and does not serve our national interest for any faction to say it is boycotting dialogue."
Yasser Arafat's number two in the PLO, Mahmud Abbas, said on SatVrday that all factions wanting to take part in talks must sign up to the ceasefire, which includes an end to suicide attacks.
However, Hamas and other hardline factions have rejected the proposal.
It is uncertain exactly when the talks in Cairo will resume
