’Israeli’, Palestinian Delegations Continue Talks on Final Day of Gaza Ceasefire
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"Israeli" and Palestinian negotiators will enter a final day of ceasefire talks in Cairo on Wednesday, as the clock ticks towards a midnight deadline ending a 72-hour truce.
By that time, the negotiators must have either agreed on a permanent truce, accepted an extension or risk a resumption of more than a month of "Israeli" aggression on the besieged Gaza strip.
"There has been progress, but not enough to sign an agreement, the negotiations will resume tomorrow ," a member of the Palestinian delegation said, without giving further details.
As on previous days, the "Israeli" team returned to the Zionist entity after talks, for likely consultations with their government.
As Gaza's residents ventured out into the quiet to try to piece together their battered lives, negotiators held a second round of indirect talks Tuesday aimed at finding a durable end to the five-week confrontation.
But officials said there was still a way to go to agree an end to the Israeli assault on Gaza which erupted on July 8.
"The negotiations are difficult and grueling," a Palestinian official had said of Monday's opening talks, which lasted almost 10 hours and which were described as "serious."
And early on Tuesday, an "Israeli" official had played down the chances of success.
"The gaps are still very wide. There has not been progress in the negotiations," he said.
The teams gather in separate rooms at the headquarters of the Egyptian General Intelligence and never see each other, with mediators shuttling between them with proposals and counter-proposals, a source said.
In Istanbul, a coalition of pro-Palestinian activists said they would send a flotilla of blockade-busting ships to Gaza by the end of 2014, four years after a similar attempt ended in bloodshed when "Israel" staged a botched raid in an attempt to stop it.
In a sign that "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced domestic political battles to sell any deal to his fractious coalition, he called off a planned meeting of his security cabinet on Tuesday.
Instead, he invited key ministers, mainly hawks, for private meetings, "Israeli" media reported.
Egypt brokered the three-day truce which took effect at 00:01 on Monday, and has urged the warring sides to make every effort to reach "a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire."
Meanwhile, "Israel" lashed out after the UN Human Rights Council named experts who would be involved in an inquiry into its Gaza campaign, accusing commission leader, William Schabas, of having an anti-"Israeli" bias.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said the UN probe would prove "Israel" committed war crimes and violated humanitarian law during its Gaza offensive.
"We are going to cooperate with this commission when it arrives in Palestine," he said while visiting Caracas.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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