The following are reactions of some international key players to Israel's declaration of a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip:
"I demand Israel today stop its military operations immediately. I demand from its leaders an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and I demand from them a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip.
"Despite the adoption of security council resolution 1860, two days after the Egyptian initiative, the Israeli military operations are still continuing in the occupied Gaza Strip. Egypt has continued to move in a race against time to stop the fighting as it hosted several intense and difficult negotiations with Israeli and Palestinian sides."
"If the troops remain in Gaza, then I don't think the ceasefire will last."Because of that president Abbas asks the international community to pressure Israel to implement the withdrawal from Gaza very soon.
"We need the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza because there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza that needs to be resolved."
"As the Prime Minister [Gordon Brown] said today, too many lives have already been lost.
"The deaths of over 1,000 people stand testament to the scale and duration of the conflict."
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