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Last update - 18:48 04/05/2008 Egypt says won't let Gaza starve no matter outcome of truce bid By Reuters Tags: Israel, Egypt, Gaza  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has listed securing a cease-fire agreement between Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and Israel as one his "urgent priorities," the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported on Sunday. Egypt will send intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to Israel soon for talks on a truce deal Cairo hopes to seal between Israel and Palestinian militants, Mubarak said on Sunday. The agency said that regardless of whether Israel accepts Egypt's proposal, Mubarak would ensure that the Gaza Strip does not fall to starvation. Advertisement "I think the head of intelligence will travel there, but after the holiday celebrations in Israel. He will go to talk to the Israeli side," Mubarak told reporters in remarks aired live on state television. Mubarak did not give a specific date for the trip, but Israel marks its Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers on Wednesday and its 60th anniversary on Thursday. MENA reported last week that Palestinian groups meeting in Cairo had agreed to a truce starting in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. But a number of Palestinian factions were equivocal in their support, and some said they reserved the right to retaliate against Israeli attacks. A senior Israeli official said on Thursday that Israel would likely agree to an informal truce in Gaza if cross-border rocket attacks and arms smuggling into the territory ended. The plan also includes attempts to reconcile the two biggest Palestinian groups - Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, which controls the Palestinian Authority from its base in the West Bank. MENA has said the truce proposal is part of a broader plan that would eventually lead to the lifting of the blockade thatIsrael has imposed on Gaza since last June. The agency quoted what it described as a well placed source on Sunday as saying that Cairo hoped Israel would not reject Egypt's truce proposal but "if that happens, we reiterate President Mubarak's words that we will not leave Gaza to go hungry." MENA gave no details on what that might mean, but said that the re-opening of the sealed Gaza-Egypt border was dependent on agreement by all sides, including Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. An Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment. Israel has been targeting Hamas members in Gaza and the West Bank while Hamas and other groups have been firing crude rockets across the border into Israel. Each side says it is responding to attacks by the other. Related articles: Jihad: We won't sign cease-fire, but won't be first to violate it Egypt: 'Good progress' made in Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks Bookmark to del.icio.us   Under probe Olmert stays focused on work despite new allegations. Taxi Hamas Hamas police cars serve as taxis in fuel-starved Gaza.   1.   War against Hamas. 20:36  |  Jean Van Daem 04/05/08   2.   What Israel`s boneheaded leaders don`t get 21:50  |  Chris Linthwaite 04/05/08   3.   Arab states always make promises, don`t they 23:59  |  x-ray 04/05/08

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