The United Nations, Egypt and the United States are pushing for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, it was reported here this evening. "We still have some term and context of the framework to work through," US Secretary of State John Kerry told a press conference in Cairo. Kerry, who was joined by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri, said the only way for "this issue to be resolved, this conflict, is for the parties to be able to come together and work through it." Shoukri said: "We have discussed ways to get the two parties to agree to a ceasefire, but we have to make more effort to get all parties to agree."
