Israel continues Gaza air strikes
Two Hamas activists are killed in fresh raids as armed factions weigh mutual truce.
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Abbas wants a halt to rocket attacks on Israel for a month to allow Palestinians to discuss a truce with Israel, and each other.
The armed groups denied that any commitments had been made, saying only that they were weighing the trial Gaza truce proposal.
Taha said his organisation would “study the proposal”.
“The next 48 hours will be decisive for determining which way the factions are going, and it will depend on Israel and whether it wants to stop its aggression,” said Abdel-Hakim Awad, a spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah faction.
Earlier air strikes targeted positions used by Hamas and another group, Islamic Jihad.
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Israel has carried out dozens of attacks in recent days in retaliation for stepped-up Palestinian rocket fire on southern Israeli towns.
Haniya stayed away from public prayers on Friday, even though Israel denied he was a target of a missile fired at the Shati refugee camp just before midnight on Thursday.
On Thursday, Israel broadened its tactics by rounding up 33 Hamas political leaders in the West Bank.
The most prominent leader arrested was Nasser Shaer, the education minister, who is considered a pragmatist.
Israel has been holding 40 Palestinian politicians from Hamas rounded up over the past year.