A Palestinian employee inspects the damage after the Israeli army shelled the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on July 21, 2014. -AFP
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry were in Cairo Tuesday in a bid to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas after two weeks of fighting which has left over 570 Palestinians dead.
Many of those killed in the relentless Israeli campaign of shelling and airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, in its 15th day, were women and children. On the Israeli side 27 soldiers and two civilians have died.
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