And back we go to Egypt’s version of ceasefire parameters.
In the next couple of days, a delegation from Fatah and the Palestinian Authority will set off for Cairo in order conduct talks there with senior Hamas officials in the presence of Egyptian representatives. They will discuss the ceasefire terms that Cairo presented earlier in the conflict, according to senior Palestinian officials who spoke to The Times of Israel.
Azam al-Ahmed, a confidant of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, will lead the PA delegation along with PA security chief Majed Faraj. Hamas will be represented by its deputy political chief, Moussa Abu Marzouk, and it is still unclear whether other senior officials will join him. Egyptian intelligence officials will moderate.
According to the sources, the Egyptian proposal is the only one that will be discussed in Cairo. The talks will be held despite US Secretary of State John Kerry’s participation in a conference this weekend in Paris alongside Qatar and Turkey, which was interpreted as Washington moving away from the Egyptian plan.
Russia has expressed support for the Egyptian ceasefire terms.
— Avi Issacharoff
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