A Hamas team arrived in Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian mediators on a possible truce in Gaza.

A Hamas team arrived in Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian mediators on a possible truce in Gaza, an airport official and state news agency MENA said.

The delegation is led by senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Rishq, the sources said.
Egypt, the traditional broker between the Zionist entity and the Palestinian resistance, had invited Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to gather in Cairo to thrash out a durable truce in Gaza based on an Egyptian ceasefire proposal.

The Zionist entity, however, has said it will not send anyone to the talks.
"It is therefore unclear at this stage what benefit Israel might see for participating in an attempt to reach agreements, based on the Egyptian initiative,” Israel's deputy foreign minister Tzahi HaNegbi told AFP on Saturday.

Another Palestinian team, including the Palestinian Authority's spy chief Majid Faraj, arrived late on Saturday for the negotiations, which are expected to start later on Sunday.

Representatives of another resistance group Islamic Jihad movement are also expected in the Egyptian capital as is US Middle East envoy Frank Lowenstein and the Middle East Quartet's peace envoy Tony Blair.

The talks will focus on ways to end the offensive in Gaza, which has so far claimed more than 1,700 Palestinian lives and displaced up to a quarter of the territory's population.

The Palestinian resistance is expected to press its demands for the end of an eight-year blockade of Gaza and the release of Palestinian prisoners.