CAIRO, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday the Islamist group Hamas could have avoided the Israeli attacks on Gaza. "We talked to them and we told them 'please, we ask you, do not end the truce. Let the truce continue and not stop' so that we could have avoided what happened," he said in Cairo. (Writing by Alaa Shahine)
An Israeli soldier prays atop a tank near Kibbutz Sufa, just outside the southern Gaza Strip December 28, 2008. Israel launched air strikes on Gaza for a second day on Sunday, ...
