THE Israeli delegation tasked with negotiating in Cairo a possible second truce with Hamas in the Gaza Strip returned to IsraelIsraeli media reports.

THE Egyptwhich has traditionally played a mediating role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hosted US and Israeli intelligence chiefs yesterday, as well as the head of Qatar’s government, for talks on declaring a new ceasefire that would allow the release of hostages in the hands of militants of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli medianotably the digital editions of the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel newspapers, were reported overnight to return of the Israeli delegation, without further clarification. The delegation was “on the way back from Cairo,” a Times of Israel source in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

The conversations between her manager CIA William Burnshim Mossad chief David Barneahim Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdel Rahman al Thani and Egyptian officials were “positive” and will continue over the “next three days,” Al-Qahera television, widely believed to have ties to the Egyptian intelligence service, reported earlier, citing a “senior Egyptian official.”

From the side of Hamas it is “open to the idea of ​​discussing any initiative to end the aggression and the war,” an official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“Hamas and the other Palestinian movements are awaiting the results of the Cairo talks,” the same source added.