Hopes for Gaza peace immediately dashed
By Agencies in Gaza City, Palestinian Territories and Brussels | China Daily | Updated: 2012-11-17 08:08
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A member of the Hamas security forces gestures while standing in rubble after an Israeli airstrike on the building housing Hamas' ministry of the interior in Gaza City on Thursday. Mohammed Salem / Reuters |
Egypt opened a tiny window to emergency peace diplomacy in Gaza on Friday, but hopes for even a brief ceasefire while its prime minister was inside the bombarded enclave to talk to leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement were immediately dashed.
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