Cairo. .- The Arab League decided today to ask the Security Council to impose a UN no-fly zone "against the Israeli air force to protect civilians from the Gaza Strip." In a statement, the pan-Arab organization reported that this measure was agreed after an urgent meeting of permanent ambassadors in Cairo to discuss the escalation of tension in the Gaza Strip.
At the meeting, the representatives decided to instruct the Arab group at the UN request an urgent meeting of the Security Council "to discuss the Israeli aggression against Gaza and the lifting of the siege by Israel to impose an air exclusion zone against Israeli aircraft to protect civilians.
" The note adds that the Arab League also decided to invite "the UN Security Council and the Quartet (Middle East) to assume their responsibilities to stop the ongoing Israeli aggression and massacres, and to offer international protection to the Palestinian people in Gaza. " Also, permanent ambassadors urged to "take all necessary measures" to stop the aggression of Israel and reiterated "the need to lift the siege on Gaza and open the crossings." They expressed their satisfaction at the initiative of President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, to end the divisions among Palestinians and achieve national reconciliation.
Last Thursday, firing anti-tank rocket from Gaza into an Israeli school bus where a child and wounded the driver, set off the worst offensive in the Gaza Israel in the past two years. In addition to causing nearly two dozen dead, the bombings have left half a hundred wounded in the Gaza Strip, where it was recorded as a spiral of deadly violence since the operation Cast Lead, which in late 2008 and early 2009 claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians and thirteen Israelis.
After this increase in violence, Palestinian militants in Gaza began today agreed to observe a ceasefire with Israel, according to the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gaza. For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today that Israel was ready for a cease-fire with Palestinian militants in Gaza. 
At the meeting, the representatives decided to instruct the Arab group at the UN request an urgent meeting of the Security Council "to discuss the Israeli aggression against Gaza and the lifting of the siege by Israel to impose an air exclusion zone against Israeli aircraft to protect civilians.
" The note adds that the Arab League also decided to invite "the UN Security Council and the Quartet (Middle East) to assume their responsibilities to stop the ongoing Israeli aggression and massacres, and to offer international protection to the Palestinian people in Gaza. " Also, permanent ambassadors urged to "take all necessary measures" to stop the aggression of Israel and reiterated "the need to lift the siege on Gaza and open the crossings." They expressed their satisfaction at the initiative of President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, to end the divisions among Palestinians and achieve national reconciliation.
Last Thursday, firing anti-tank rocket from Gaza into an Israeli school bus where a child and wounded the driver, set off the worst offensive in the Gaza Israel in the past two years. In addition to causing nearly two dozen dead, the bombings have left half a hundred wounded in the Gaza Strip, where it was recorded as a spiral of deadly violence since the operation Cast Lead, which in late 2008 and early 2009 claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians and thirteen Israelis.
After this increase in violence, Palestinian militants in Gaza began today agreed to observe a ceasefire with Israel, according to the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gaza. For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today that Israel was ready for a cease-fire with Palestinian militants in Gaza.
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