Hamas in Egypt for talks on Gaza truce

CAIRO (AFP) — A Hamas delegation arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for talks in Cairo on a fragile three-week-old Gaza truce as Israel said it would reopen its borders with the territory at the Egyptian mediator's request.

The delegation was to discuss details of the truce and what Hamas says are Israeli violations, as well as proposals to reopen a border crossing with Egypt -- Gaza's only frontier post that bypasses Israel.

The truce was meant to lead to a gradual easing of a year-old blockade of Gaza imposed after Hamas seized power in June 2007, but Israel on Tuesday temporarily sealed off the territory again for the fourth time since the ceasefire went into effect on June 19.

Israel said it was closing the border crossings in retaliation for a mortar round fired from Gaza on Monday in breach of the truce.

But "following a ...