A Hamas leader said Palestinian terrorist groups would observe a cease-fire only until year’s end. “The agreement to maintain calm was the only option in order to preserve the power of resistance and prevent infighting,” Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas political representative, told the London-based Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Monday.
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