CAIRO – 5 March 2024: A high-ranking Egyptian source told al Qahera news channel that talks hosted in Cairo to reach a truce in the Gaza Strip are still continuing, and a new round of negotiations expected be held between all parties, Wednesday. The second round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations kicked off in Cairo, Monday between delegations of Egypt, Qatar, Hamas, and the United States of America. Cairo hosted the first round of negotiations on Sunday with the aim to reach a humanitarian truce between the Palestinian Hamas movement and Israel in Gaza. An official close to Hamas told AFP that a delegation from the movement headed to Egypt on Saturday evening for the ceasefire agreement and a prisoner swap deal. He added, on condition of anonymity, that Hamas will hand Egypt over the response to the Paris proposal regarding the ceasefire agreement.

Source: Egypt Today March 05, 2024 18:29 UTC