The Palestinian prime minister said Friday that militants were prepared to stop barraging Israel with rockets if Israel would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer as lopsided, and said it would respond positively only to a total truce, AP reported. On Friday, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said armed factions had agreed a day earlier to halt rocket fire in exchange for a complete cessation of Israeli military operations in Gaza and the West Bank. «The ball now is in the Israeli court,» Haniyeh said. «It (Israel) must stop its aggression and escalation against the Palestinian people, then there will be no problem according to what the factions agreed in their last meeting.»
