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Live blog round-up

We're wrapping up the live blog for now, but we'll keep you updated with breaking events at the ceasefire talks in Cairo on the Middle East Eye front page.

Here's a round-up of what has happened so far on Monday, as the current 72-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip continues to hold:

  • Civilians in Gaza are facing a health crisis, with cramped over-stretched shelters providing a breeding ground for infectious diseases like scabies.
  • Israeli negotiators returned to Cairo to carry on indirect talks with a Palestinian delegation including representatives from Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad.
  • A source close to the Israeli intelligence services revealed that Egypt has rebuked Israel, claiming that they were not able to negotiate a compromise with Hamas during the last round of ceasefire talks because Israel had not hit the group "hard enough."
  • Fierce clashes broke out at the Huwwara checkpoint in Nablus after Israeli troops killed a West Bank Palestinian, 22-year old Zakariya al-Aqraa. He had reportedly opened fire at an undercover police unit that arrived at his house to arrest him.
  • A top UN humanitarian official, James Rawley, demanded that the siege be lifted to avoid further violence in the future.
  • The conflict has had a devastating impact on the Israeli economy - a shop owner in West Jerusalem reported a 90 percent drop in sales.