Israel, Hamas accept 72-hour Gaza truce

Egypt brokers three day truce, but both Israel and Washington expressed wariness about whether the cease-fire will hold, and uncertainty about next steps.
Palestinian children play on a swing in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip August 4, 2014. A seven-hour truce under which Israel would unilaterally hold fire in most of the Gaza Strip went into force on Monday and Palestinians immediately accused Israel of breaking the ceasefire by bombing a house in Gaza City. Gaza officials say 1,796 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed and more than a quarter of the impoverished enclave's 1.8 million residents displaced. As many as 3,000 P
Palestinian children play on a swing in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip August 4, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem. -
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Israel and Hamas said on Aug. 4 that they have accepted an Egyptian proposal for a 72-hour cease-fire to begin on the morning of Aug. 5.

Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for truce talks "fairly soon," an Israeli official, speaking not for attribution, told al-Monitor late Monday.

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