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It was Mr Abbas who talked the armed factions into the ceasefire and called the Israelis to get them to accept.
On Saturday night, a day into the ceasefire, the edge of the city came under fire and the Donetsk rebels wrote on their Twitter account that they were "taking Mariupol", although they later said they were reacting to provocations from the Ukrainian side and were keeping the ceasefire.
However, an hour into the ceasefire there were no reports of attacks from either side.
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The Tigers provoked the government into ending the ceasefire by trying to kill several of its members.
An IDF spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, said the truce was broken at about 9.30am when Israeli soldiers had been preparing to destroy a Hamas tunnel running from Gaza into Israel, as the ceasefire terms allowed, when a group of militants emerged from an underground shaft.
Now that Israelis and Palestinians have arrived in Cairo to turn the ceasefire into something more long-lasting, perhaps it feels safer to take a stand.
Those NGOs represent critical partners for the UN, as they rush to get aid into besieged Aleppo during the ceasefire, which may not hold for long.
In the 48 hours before the ceasefire went into effect, Israel sent a surge of ground troops into southern Lebanon to engage in the "anachronistic" pursuit of seizing territory precisely in order to create the conscious perception of tangible military victory that air power alone had failed to deliver.
Others, however, said Surkov demanded the rebels fell into line and kept to the ceasefire.
As the ceasefire came into effect Gaza echoed with celebratory gunfire and mosques announced victory through their loudspeakers.
Israel also maintained the blockade of Gaza after the ceasefire came into force which, in the view of the Hamas leaders, amounted to a violation of the agreement.
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