http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/02/mideast/index.html
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian leaders announced Sunday they have suspended peace talks with Israel until the Jewish state halts its military operation in Gaza -- something that Israeli officials have said they have no intention of doing.
"Following what happened yesterday, peace talks are halted until the Israeli aggression stops," Palestinian spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said Sunday.
"That is the decision which the President [Mahmoud Abbas] adopted," Rudeina said. "Israel should know that this aggression won't just pass and the continuous Israeli provocation and aggression upon the Palestinian people won't lead to peace."
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN that Israel is responding to ongoing rocket fire from Palestinian militants who are "deliberately and continuously target[ing] civilian population centers."
Israel can not sit by while militants try "to kill our people," Regev said.
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank to protest the attacks that have killed more than 70 Palestinians in Israeli operations since Friday.
Most of the deaths occurred Saturday, the deadliest day of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in more than a year.
Sunday, 2 March 2008
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