Bulldozers clear rubble, reax to ceasefire declaration

(18 Jan 2009) Gaza City, Gaza Strip 1. Wide of cityscape with destroyed buildings 2. Various of bulldozers cleaning up streets 3. Pan of destroyed building 4. Various of bulldozer 5. Various of people in street 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox Pop: Gaza resident: "A unilateral truce is a dangerous. It can't be unilateral. All sides must be involved in the truce, not just Israel declaring a truce as it wants. One minute Israel wants to enter Gaza and then it wants to leave. A unilateral ceasefire just means it will attack us again." 7. Various of street 8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox Pop: Gaza resident: "Israel thinks she's clever and she's laughing at us. She announced a unilateral ceasefire so she can attack when she wants and then call a truce whenever she wants and lie about her political standpoint and tells the world 'we agreed to the truce but they didn't agree to it' and then attack whenever she wants." 9. Various of street Ramallah, West Bank 10. Wide of Manara Square, Ramallah 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox Pop: Ramallah resident: "I think this is a full victory for the resistance and the Palestinians in Gaza and this was the only solution for Israel because of the international community." 12. Various of street STORYLINE: There were mixed reactions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday to Israel's declaration of a unilateral ceasefire. One Gaza resident was sceptical about a unilateral ceasefire, saying all sides must be involved. In Ramallah one man said he thought the ceasefire was a victory for the Palestinian resistance factions. Israel's leaders voted late on Saturday to halt the onslaught on Hamas militants and the Gazan population that killed nearly 12-hundred people and turned the streets and neighbourhoods of the Strip into battlegrounds. Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert said in a televised address that Israel's "goals have been achieved, and even beyond." Firing was due to stop at 0200 local time (0000GMT) but Olmert said Israel would keep troops on the ground for the time being. The military warned in a statement early on Sunday that Israeli forces would retaliate for attacks against soldiers or civilians and that any such attack would be met with a harsh response. But Hamas leaders have repeated that it would not respect any cease-fire as long as Israeli soldiers remained inside Gaza. Hours after the truce took hold militants fired a volley of rockets into Israel. No one was injured in the rocket assault. But shortly after, security sources in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun reported an airstrike that wounded a woman and her child. The Israeli military had no comment Sunday on the report. In another incident after the truce took hold, militants fired small arms at an infantry patrol, which directed artillery and aircraft to strike back, the military said. More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in the three weeks of violence, according to Palestinian and UN officials. Thirteen Israelis have also died. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...