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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
‘Breakthrough’ reported in ceasefire efforts
Palestinian sources tell the leading Arabic daily Al-Hayat that there has been a “breakthrough” in international attempts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza.
The sources say that US Secretary of State John Kerry presented a proposal based on the Egyptian parameters, which would also include talks between Israeli and Palestinian delegations about issues that aren’t connected to the ceasefire effort.
Al-Hayat reports that Hamas and Islamic Jihad approved the ceasefire proposal, but the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine turned it down.