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From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 18, 2014
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 18, 2014
‘No return to war,’ Islamic Jihad head says
The current five-day truce ends at midnight (2100 GMT) Monday but Ziad Nakhleh, head of the Islamic Jihad faction within the Palestinian delegation in Cairo, said he expects it to be extended if a deal is not reached by then.
“The war is behind us now,” he told the AP. “We are not returning to war.”
A Palestinian negotiator, Qais Abdul Karim, told The Associated Press that on Sunday, Israel pressed for guarantees that Hamas and other militant factions in Gaza would be disarmed, while the Palestinians demanded an end to the blockade without preconditions.
— AP
