Israel is willing, in the words of an employee of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the invasion of the Gaza Strip, but preferred a diplomatic solution. If a solution at the negotiating table of the population in southern Israel can guarantee the peace, be a ground offensive unnecessary, said the Netanyahu employee told Reuters. "But if diplomacy fails, there is probably no alternative to a ground offensive."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is this Monday in Cairo expected, where he wants to support Egypt's mediation efforts in the Gaza conflict. He will then travel on to Israel.
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi conferred among others with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, whose radical Islamic movement controls the Gaza Strip. Unconfirmed reports of Israeli media reports now greeted by a delegation from Jerusalem to Cairo.
Meshaal said on the sidelines of the talks to reporters: "We are not the aggressor in this conflict." The Hamas is against an escalation of violence, but the initiative for a cease-fire must be based on Israel because the Netanyahu government "started the war" did.
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) also travels to the Middle East, in the evening he met in Tel Aviv, the first Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. On Tuesday talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister are Benjamin Netanyahu planned. The foreign and defense ministers meeting in Brussels would also deliberate on the Gaza conflict.
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Hopes for a quick ceasefire were muffled by the Palestinian side, however. The negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Cairo have made progress, but still had a cease-fire in the coming days is unlikely, said the Palestinian news agency Maan, according to the PLO politician Nabil Shaath. Israel is trying to enforce its terms and ignore the demands of Hamas and other Palestinian factions.
"Israel wants to first talk about a ceasefire and then rules," said another member of the Politburo of the Palestinian organization. "But we reject that. We want to know how implementation of the ceasefire and how it is stored, and that Israel respects him."
The Israeli army began on Monday continued their violent attacks on targets in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian militants in the area on the Mediterranean fired again numerous rockets at Israeli towns. As a reporter for the BBC reported , struck a rocket into a high-rise in the number of TV channels have their offices. In the attack, apparently a senior leader of the extremist group Islamic Jihad was killed.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military operation "pillar of defense" last Wednesday had more than 90 Palestinians were killed and over 700 were injured, Palestinian news agencies reported. For the majority of the victims if they were civilians, including many women and children.
NATO Secretary General Rasmussen urged Israel to show restraint
Israel had launched the air campaign to stop the rocket fire emanating from there its territory by Hamas. On the Israeli side, there have since been three lives by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen , meanwhile, has warned Israel to show restraint: "I am very concerned about the escalation of violence in Gaza and in Israel," he said in Brussels. He regretted the loss of life. "Of course Israel has the right to self-defense, and stop the attacks on Israel must," said Rasmussen. "But the international community also expects Israel to show restraint."
Previously, British Prime Minister David Cameron had called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to "do everything possible" to end the crisis in Gaza. Foreign Secretary William Hague reiterated on Sunday in Sky television that Israel risked losing international sympathy, it should launch a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. "A ground offensive could lead to Israel support and sympathy around the world loses," he said.
A coalition of 38 international aid agencies warned of a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. The organizations - including Oxfam, Terre des Hommes Switzerland and Save the Children - Call upon the international community to exert pressure on the parties to the conflict. The Israeli government should be urged to leave the border crossings with Gaza to open for humanitarian assistance. Local partners and hospitals in Gaza have reported that an essential drugs and utensils go. In the area is reported to live 1.6 million Palestinians, half of whom were children.
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