Hamas negotiators in Cairo for Gaza truce talks

Makeshift tents for displaced Palestinians at a temporary camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, on May 3, 2024. - Bloomberg

CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters): Hamas negotiators began intensified talks on Saturday (May 4) on a possible Gaza truce that would see a halt to the fighting and the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official told Reuters, with the CIA director already present in Cairo for the indirect diplomacy.

The Hamas delegation arrived from the Palestinian Islamist movement's political office in Qatar, which, along with Egypt, has tried to mediate a follow-up to a brief November ceasefire amid mounting international dismay over the soaring death toll in Gaza and the plight of its 2.3 million inhabitants.