"Barack Obama is pressing the Egyptian leadership to help de-escalate the bloody conflict in Gaza amid concern that a further ratcheting up of violence, such as a major Israeli ground assault, could damage the peace accords between Cairo and Jerusalem.
The Egyptian prime
minister, Hisham Kandil, is expected to lead a delegation to Gaza on Friday for
talks with Hamas leaders on quelling the fighting [Not support of the Palestinians as Egypt claims!] which has escalated with the
Israeli assassination of the Hamas military leader, Ahmed Jabari, and the firing
of hundreds of rockets from Gaza into Israel. The fighting has now
claimed civilian lives on both sides.
On Thursday, the
conflict threatened to escalate further as the Israelis stepped up their
intense bombardment of Gaza and Hamas continued its barrage of rocket fire into
Israel....."
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