Judging by the total lack of reaction across any markets, traders are just as confused by the headlines blurting out of Hamas leader Mashaal:
- *SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL SAYS TRUCE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON (ok great)
- *MASHAAL SAYS 'WE ARE FOR A TRUCE BUT WE ARE PATIENT' (wait... you just said)
- *MASHAAL SAYS NOBODY CAN DISARM PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE (hhmm)
- *MASHAAL SAYS HAMAS SEES 'NO REAL BREAKTHROUGH' IN TRUCE SEARCH (wait what?)
So there may be a truce, there may not be... Mashall adds "we are ready to accept a humanitarian truce" but any truce "must" mean a lifting of the embargo on Gaza; oh and "nobody can disarm the Palestinian resistance... does not sound too hopeful.
Via Bloomberg
- *HAMAS LEADER KHALED MASHAAL SPEAKS AT QATAR PRESS CONFERENCE
- *MASHAAL SAYS HAMAS BRIGADES DESTROYED IDEA OF INVINCIBLE ISRAEL
- *MASHAAL SAYS HAMAS ISN'T WEAKENED BY TRUCE WITH FATAH
- *MASHAAL SAYS HAMAS FOCUSED ON ATTACKING MILITARY SITES
- *MASHAAL SAYS NOBODY CAN DISARM PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
- *MASHAAL ASKS FOR HUMANITARIAN AID BEFORE FIGHTING ENDS
- *MASHAAL CALLS FOR OPENING OF GAZA BORDER CROSSINGS TO EGYPT
- *MASHAAL SAYS WELCOMES EFFORTS FOR CEASE-FIRE
- *HAMAS WON'T SETTLE FOR LESS THAN END TO GAZA EMBARGO: MASHAAL
- *MASHAAL SAYS `WE ARE FOR A TRUCE BUT WE ARE PATIENT'
- *MASHAAL ASKS PALESTINIANS IN GAZA FOR MORE PATIENCE
- *MASHAAL SAYS HAMAS SEES `NO REAL BREAKTHROUGH' IN TRUCE SEARCH
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Doesn;t exactly sound like peace to us?