Negotiations to halt Israel’s attack on Gaza and free captives head into a second day in Cairo.
A Hamas source told the AFP news agency a delegation is in the Egyptian capital to meet Egyptian and Qatari mediators after Israeli negotiators held talks with them on Tuesday.
CIA Director William Burns and David Barnea, head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, attended those discussions, which Egyptian media said had been mostly “positive”. US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby described the negotiations as “constructive and moving in the right direction”.
Mediators are racing to secure a stop to the fighting before Israel proceeds with a full-scale ground incursion into Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where more than 1.4 million Palestinians are trapped.
Al Jazeera
