Gaza cease-fire talks to start in Cairo after feast

06/10/2014| IslamWeb

A new round of indirect Gaza cease-fire talks would start between the Palestinians and the Israelis in the Egyptian capital Cairo after the al-Adha feast vacation, the Palestinian faction Hamas said late on Sunday.

Senior Hamas leader Salah al-Bardwil was quoted by the news agency Al-Rai as saying that the latest round of talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis in Cairo had fixed Gaza's cease-fire, which ended Israel's 51-day offensive on the Gaza Strip on August 26.

"We have already agreed on the agenda of the indirect talks with Israel," al-Bardawil was quoted by the agency as saying.

He added that the talks this time would dwell on the desire of the Palestinians to establish an airport in Gaza and also the release of the prisoners of the Gilad Shalit swap deal.

Israel's latest offensive on the Gaza Strip left 2,157 Gazans dead and more than 11,000 others injured.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said earlier that both the Palestinians and the Israelis were committed to maintaining the Gaza cease-fire and that both sides would resume their indirect negotiations on other pending issues during the second half of October.

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Palestinian boys stand outside what is left of their family house in the Tofah neighborhood of Gaza City. Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014

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