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Monday 11 August 2014

GAZA CONFLICT: FRESH TALKS BEGIN IN EGYPT

A Palestinian woman walks next to one a destroyed residential tower block in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip - 11 August 2014
The BBC's Yolande Knell in Gaza says both sides are suggesting - unofficially - that there are signs of compromise.
Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators aimed at finding a long-term solution to the conflict in Gaza have begun in Cairo, according to Egyptian state media.
The fresh discussions come amid a new three-day ceasefire agreed between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.
A Palestinian man walks past the remains of the mosque in Khan Younis that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike - 11 August 2014
A BBC reporter in Gaza says the truce is holding so far, with signs of normal life returning to the streets.

About 2,000 people have died since the fighting in Gaza began on 8 July. Those killed include more than 1,900 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the UN. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers have been killed in the fighting and three civilians in Israel have also died.
An Israeli soldier washes a tank at a staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip - 10 August 2014
Palestinian fishermen in Gaza City return to sea during a 72-hour ceasefire - 11 August 2014

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