Gaza: declaración de tregua se posterga a último momento

Gaza: cese de fuego cercano, pero todavía no
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Smoke rises after an Israeli mobile artillery unit fired a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position a near the Israel Gaza border, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. Israel's prime minister says Israel would be a "willing partner" in a cease-fire with Gaza's ruling militant group Hamas. Benjamin Netanyahu made the pronouncement Tuesday at a meeting with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who is in the region as part of an international diplomatic push to end nearly a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

JERUSALEN (AP) Diplomáticos de todo el mundo intensificaron el martes sus intentos para que Israel y los extremistas en la Franja de Gaza cesen sus hostilidades de casi una semana, con el presidente de Egipto afirmando que los ataques aéreos israelíes terminarían en cuestión de horas y el primer ministro de Israel sosteniendo que su país estaría "dispuesto" a un alto el fuego con el grupo islámico Hamas.

Mientras los representantes diplomáticos recorrían toda la región para presionar por un acuerdo, un alto funcionario de Hamas dijo que estaba cerca un compromiso, incluso mientras continuaban los ataques entre las dos partes. La cifra de muertos israelíes se elevó el martes a cinco, con el deceso de un soldado israelí y un contratista civil. Más de 130 palestinos han muerto.

"No hemos alcanzado un acuerdo todavía, pero estamos avanzando y lo más probable es que sea esta noche", dijo el martes Musa Abu Marzuk en El Cairo, donde se realizaban las conversaciones hacia un alto el fuego. Otro funcionario de Hamas, Izzat Risheq, dijo más tarde que qui*zas no se alcanzaría un acuerdo.

Funcionarios israelíes solo dijeron que había en marcha"esfuerzos intensos" para cesar los combates. El ministro de Defensa israelí, Ehud Barak, citado por la prensa local, dijo durante una reunión a puerta cerrada que Israel quería que Hamas ordene un período de prueba de 24 horas sin ataques con cohetes para comprobar que es capaz de imponer una tregua.

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Birzeit University students takes cover behind the university's sign during clashes with Israeli soldiers at the Atara checkpoint close to the university as they protest against Israel's military action on the Gaza Strip, on November 19, 2012. Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip killed 13 people, raising the Palestinian death toll to 90 as Israel's relentless air campaign entered its sixth day. AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ISRAEL/GAZA BORDER - ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 19: Israeli artillery shells attack a target in the Gaza Strip on November 19, 2012 on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. According to reports November 19, 2012, at least 90 Palestinians have been killed and more than 700 wounded during the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ISRAEL/GAZA BORDER - ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 19: Israeli artillery shells attack a target in the Gaza Strip on November 19, 2012 on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. According to reports November 19, 2012, at least 90 Palestinians have been killed and more than 700 wounded during the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Palestinians hurry away from a damaged building after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. Israel widened the range of targets in its Gaza offensive Sunday, striking more than a dozen homes of suspected Hamas militants and two media offices, according to security officials and witnesses. The attacks also damaged adjacent houses, killing seven civilians, including five children, health officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (credit:AP)
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ISRAEL/GAZA BORDER - ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 20: (ISRAEL OUT) Israeli soldiers prepare weapons and vehicles in a deployment area as the conflict between Palestine and Gaza enters its seventh day on November 20, 2012 on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants and Israel are continuing talks aimed at a ceasefire as the death toll in Gaza reaches over 100 with three Israelis also having been killed by rockets fired by Palestinian militants. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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The sun rises as an Israeli soldier washes his teeth atop a tank that he slept on, at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, early Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. On Tuesday, grieving Gazans were burying militants and civilians killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes, and barrages of rockets from Gaza sent terrified Israelis scurrying to take cover. Efforts to end a week-old convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence drew in the world's top diplomats Tuesday, with U.S. President Barack Obama dispatching his secretary of state to the region on an emergency mission and the U.N. chief appealing from Cairo for an immediate cease-fire. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (credit:AP)
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Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire on the National Islamic Bank, destroyed overnight in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. Early Tuesday, Israeli aircraft targeted another Hamas symbol of power, battering the headquarters of the bank senior Hamas officials set up to sidestep international sanctions on the militant group's rule. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra) (credit:AP)
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Smoke and fire are seen from an explosion by a high rise housing media organizations in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. It's the Israel's military second strike on the building in two days. The Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, is located on the top floor. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) (credit:AP)
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Smoke and fire are seen from an explosion by a high rise housing media organizations in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. It's the Israel's military second strike on the building in two days. The Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, is located on the top floor. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) (credit:AP)
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Israeli soldiers lie on the ground as an Iron Dome missile is launched near the city of Ashdod, Israel, Monday Nov 19. 2012. Israeli aircraft struck crowded areas in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior militant with a missile strike on a media center Monday, driving up the Palestinian death toll to 96, as Israel broadened its targets in the 6-day-old offensive meant to quell Hamas rocket fire on Israel. (AP Photo/Moti Milrod) ISRAEL OUT (credit:AP)
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The dead body of a Palestinian woman from the Abdel Aal family is pulled out from the rubble after the family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighbourhood, Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan) (credit:AP)
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The dead body of a Palestinian woman from the Abdel Aal family is pulled out from the rubble after the family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighborhood, Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) (credit:AP)
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Osama Abdel Aal is rescued after his family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighborhood, Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) (credit:AP)
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A member of the Abdel Aal family is rescued after his family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighborhood, Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) (credit:AP)
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A Palestinian woman walks past a building hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (credit:AP)
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Explosion and smoke rise following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with more than 180 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said. The new attacks followed an unprecedented rocket strike aimed at the contested holy city of Jerusalem that raised the stakes in Israel's violent confrontation with Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) (credit:AP)
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Palestinian firefighters and rescue personnel work at a blast site following an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government, the group said early on November 17, with eyewitnesses reporting extensive damage to the building. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 file photo, a rocket is launched from the Israeli anti-missile system known as "Iron Dome" in order to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in Ashdod, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, file) (credit:AP)
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En lo que pareció ser una ráfaga de último minuto de fuego intenso, tanques y embarcaciones cañoneras israelíes bombardearon objetivos el martes por la noche. Uno de los ataques aéreos mató a dos hermanos que viajaban en una motocicleta. Los hombres no fueron identificados.

El recrudecimiento se produjo poco antes de la llegada a la región de la secretaria de Estado de Estados Unidos, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Tras su llegada, la diplomática se apresuró para una reunión nocturna con el primer ministro israelí Benjamin Netanyahu. El presidente Barack Obama la envió a Medio Oriente desde Camboya, donde lo acompañaba en una gira.

El presidente egipcio, Mohamed Morsi, quizás el interlocutor más importante entre Hamas —el grupo extremista que gobierna el territorio palestino— y los israelíes, afirmó el martes que las negociaciones entre ambas partes darían "resultados positivos" en cuestión de horas. Morsi habló ante reporteros en la ciudad de Zagazig.

Israel exige que cesen los ataques con cohetes desde la Franja de Gaza y el fin del contrabando de armas de Egipto a Gaza a través de túneles transfronterizos. También demanda garantías internacionales de que Hamas no se rearmará ni utilizará la región egipcia del Sinaí para atacar a Israel.

Hamas quiere que Israel detenga todos sus ataques contra la Franja de Gaza y que suspenda sus restricciones estrictas al comercio y al movimiento de entrada y salida del territorio que han estado en vigencia desde que Hamas tomó Gaza por la fuerza en 2007. Israel ya ha rechazado tales demandas anteriormente.

En Bruselas, un alto funcionario del servicio exterior de la Unión Europea dijo que un cese del fuego incluiría el fin de los ataques aéreos israelíes y los asesinatos selectivos en Gaza, la apertura de los cruces fronterizos de Gaza y el fin de los ataques con cohetes en Israel. El funcionario habló bajo condición de anonimato debido a que no estaba autorizado para hablar con la prensa.

LEE LOS COMENTARIOS A ESTA NOTA Y AGREGA EL TUYO

La violencia continuó mientras se desarrollaban las conversaciones. Un ataque aéreo la noche del martes mató a dos periodistas que trabajaban para la estación televisiva de Hamas, Al-Aqsa, según un comunicado del canal.

Para el martes, 133 palestinos, incluidos al menos 54 civiles, habían muerto desde que Israel comenzó la ofensiva aérea que hasta el momento ha incluido cerca de 1.500 ataques. Unas 840 personas han resultado heridas, incluyendo 225 niños, dijeron funcionarios de salud de Gaza.

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Barzak reportó desde Ciudad de Gaza. Los periodistas de The Associated Press Hamza Hendawi en El Cairo y Karin Laub en Ciudad de Gaza colaboraron para este despacho.

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