Palestinians examining new 72-hour truce proposal

Sunday 10 August 2014 16.11

Palestinians are examining a proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza.

The proposal is being studied. It is dependant on whether there is seriousness in the Israeli position. 

A Palestinian rocket launched from Gaza landed in an open field n the Sderot area in Israel, causing a fire.

Israel's Iron Dome system intercepted a militant rocket fired from Gaza in mid-air towards Sderot, the military said.

Israeli air strikes and shelling killed three Palestinians in Gaza, including a boy of 14 and a woman.

This is the third day of renewed fighting that has jeopardised efforts by Egypt, to end the hostilities.

Since the last ceasefire expired, Palestinian rocket and mortar salvoes have focused on Israeli kibbutzim, or collective farms.

These are located just across the fortified border.

This appears to be a strategy of sapping the Jewish state's morale without triggering another ground invasion of Gaza.

Israel said it was prepared for protracted military action in Gaza.

It said it would not return to Egyptian-mediated ceasefire talks as long as Palestinians kept up rocket fire.

A spokesman for the Islamist movement that dominates Gaza said the new ceasefire plan to keep negotiations alive, two days after Israeli negotiators flew home as a previous three-day truce was expiring.

There is an Egyptian proposal for an additional 72 hour calm in order to pursue negotiations. 

The Palestinian team threatened to leave today, unless the Israelis came back. 

An Egyptian Foreign Ministry source said the new 72-hour truce plan was still being crafted and it was too early to say if a deal would result. 

The Palestinian negotiating team represents Hamas as well as the party of US-backed President Mahmoud Abbas, who governs in parts of the West Bank not occupied by Israel.

Egypt is meeting separately with each party, given that Hamas rejects Israel's right to exist and Israel regards the group as a terrorist organisation.

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