International mediators invited the Palestinian president and the Israeli prime minister for talks in Cairo this month, stepping into the vacuum created by the Palestinians’ last-minute cancellation of a meeting Thursday between the two. The diplomatic maneuvering took place at a time when a brittle truce between rival Palestinian gunmen began to unravel. One gunman from President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction was killed before daybreak Thursday in a shootout with fighters from the rival Hamas faction in the southern Gaza Strip — the first fatality in Palestinian infighting since the truce took hold in mid-May. Full Story
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