The Palestinian UN ambassador says Egyptian mediators are in Israel trying to get the government to agree on a Gaza cease-fire.
Riyad Mansour, who represents the Western-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, tells reporters at UN headquarters in New York that “we are grateful for the Egyptians who are mediating.”
The Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas says it agreed to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal. There has been no official word yet from Israel, though a minister indicated that Israel agreed to the truce.
Mansour says “the Palestinian side is holding the quietness in order to allow for the Egyptian efforts to succeed.”
He says Abbas is returning from Kuwait for emergency meetings.
Mansour accuses Israel of starting the cycle of violence with a botched undercover military operation on Sunday.
At the Palestinians’ request, he says, Kuwait and Bolivia have asked for a meeting of the UN Security Council on the Israeli actions. China, the current council president, has called for closed consultations later today.
— AP
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