There is a cease-fire. This is a general cease-fire from our point of view. El-Sheikh added that the Palestinians had to protect themselves against Israeli attacks. This is an attack on the Palestinian people.
Building has to stop in all the settlements.
Both sides have to honor the cease-fire. El-Sheikh added that he defined the building of a single home in a settlement as a violation of the truce. Another leading West Bank Fatah figure, Marwan Barghouti, sounded far less conciliatory than El-Sheikh. The occupation represents the biggest aggressive attacks against the Palestinians. So when they are talking about the cease-fire, this means for the Palestinians to see the Israeli soldiers on the '67 borders not in Ramallah or Nablus or Gaza or Jerusalem.