Palestine ‘ready for 24-hour Gaza truce’: PLO

The Palestinian leadership, along with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, is willing to observe a 24-hour ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said on Tuesday. Following the persistent fighting, the death toll in Gaza rose to over 1,100, most of them civilians and on the Israeli side it was 56 people, mostly soldiers.