Live Blog: Gaza under attack

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.

Clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers near to the Huwwara checkpoint in the West Bank town of Nablus this morning.

Egyptian authorities claim to have destroyed five tunnels in North Sinai and arrested five Palestinians who attempted to "infiltrate" Egyptian territory.

Debkafile, an Israeli news site known to have close links to the Israeli intelligence services, has revealed the extent of co-ordination between Egypt and Israel.

It reports that, during the ongoing round of ceasefire talks in Cairo, an Egyptian official upbraided Israel for failing to hit Hamas "hard enough" during the bombardment of the Gaza Strip that began on 7 July and has killed almost 2,000 Gazans so far.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening in Jeddah.

They were discussing the situation in Gaza, and according to an Egyptian statement spent time considering the efforts towards a ceasefire to stop the "shedding of innocent civilian blood."

During the visit, Sisi was present with the Abdulaziz Medal, the most prestigious Saudi commendation for foreign leaders.

Former recipients of the medal include Syria's President Assad, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama.

The cosmetics company attracted widespread criticism and mockery for its decision to send "care packages" to front-line soldiers in the Israeli army.

Many threatened to boycott the company, which would add another business to the long list included in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) that targets Israeli goods and commerce.

Garnier said in a statement that the company values "peace and harmony."

- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-s-new-plague-scabies-331974707#sthash.WTFgAxcO.dpuf

Gazans use the temporary 72 hour ceasefire to pick their way through the rubble of their destroyed neighbourhoods to try and collect useful items.

BBC: "Britain is sending a team of doctors to Gaza, to help people wounded in the violence.

Yousef Mawry reports for the Middle East Eye from Yemen on Saturday's huge pro-Gaza rally.

Local residents evacuate Palestinians stuck in the building after an Israeli shell fired on a home in Qabalan village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus on August 11, 2014. The shelling left several Palestinians injured, including women and children, and Palestinian Zakariyya al-Aqra dead (AA)     

Hamas has decided to demand that President Mahmoud Abbas sign the Rome Statute which will allow Palestine to join the International Criminal Court as a full member, even though the militant movement itself could be subject to prosecution, sources told the Middle East Eye.

Hamas’s deputy chairman and chief negotiator in Cairo, Moussa Abu Marzouk has been instructed to sign the document supporting the State of Palestine as a member of the ICC in The Hague, the MEE has learned. The decision comes after a top level meeting between the Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas.

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