Truce Efforts in Egypt

Egypt is at the center of efforts to broker a ceasefire. Palestinian officials said it was possible a deal would be reached “today or tomorrow.”

Senior Hamas officials, who were in Cairo, said Egyptian-mediated talks with the Zionist entity to end the bloodshed were “positive” but now focused on the possible stumbling block of guaranteeing the terms of a truce.

Security officials in Cairo said an Israeli envoy also arrived in the Egyptian capital on Sunday for the talks.
Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi, meanwhile, met with both Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and Islamic Jihad chief Abdullah Shalah to discuss “Egyptian efforts to end the aggression,” his office said without giving details.

But Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman insisted that “the first and absolute condition for a truce is stopping all fire from Gaza,” and that all resistance grous would have to commit to it.
Earlier, Netanyahu received French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius who said his country was willing to help broker a truce.

“War is not an option, it is never an option …There are two key words: urgency and ceasefire,” he told journalists in Tel Aviv.