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                           Gaza Truce Talks in Doubt

   by VOA News

   The Gaza truce talks in Cairo appear to be on the verge of collapse
   Sunday with Palestinians negotiators threatening to walk away unless
   Israeli negotiators return to the table.

   Israeli officials have said their negotiators, who left Egypt Friday,
   would only return if the rocket fire from Gaza stops.

   Gaza militant groups have continued to fire rockets into Israeli.
   Israel has continued its airstrikes on Gaza.

   Gaza officials say Sunday's air strikes have killed at least one
   person.

   A 72-hour-long cease-fire expired Friday after no progress was made in
   Cairo toward a longer term truce. The Israeli army says Hamas fired 100
   rockets at Israel since the truce ended, and that Israel targeted what
   it calls "120 terror sites and nine operatives."

   Hamas demands that Israel lift its longstanding blockade of Gaza while
   Israel insists Gaza be demilitarized first.

   A month of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza has killed more than 1,900
   Palestinians, mostly civilians and turned entire neighborhoods into
   piles of rock and dust.

   Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and three civilians have died.





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