US, UN Pressing Hard for Ceasefire in Gaza


JERUSALEM (Worthy News)– UN Secretary-General Ban- Ki moon is to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, and US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Monday night amid a sudden spurt of intensive efforts to broker a Gaza cease-fire, the Jerusalem Post reported.

US President Barack Obama gave a strong push to the efforts on Monday, saying that the focus of both the US and the international community must now be on “bringing about a cease-fire that ends the fighting based on the 2012 cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.” — Source

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