JERUSALEM, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Egyptian efforts to broker a Gaza ceasefire appeared on Friday to have to run into trouble because of disagreements with Israel over how to secure the border to prevent Hamas from rearming, diplomats said. Israeli and European diplomats, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said Egypt had objections to proposals for foreign forces deploying on the Egyptian side of its 15-km (9-mile) border with the Gaza Strip. Instead of foreign troops, Cairo told Israel and the European Union, it was prepared to accept only increased international technical assistance to help its own forces combat arms smuggling through tunnels dug across the border. Israel is demanding the tunnel traffic end as part of a ceasefire deal. "The truce talks are going nowhere at the moment," said a senior European diplomat involved in the effort. "There is a growing sense that the Egyptian-French plan is not going to work." (Reporting by Adam Entous; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
A Palestinian woman, holding her child, gestures after shells fired by an Israeli naval boat landed at Shati refugee camp in Gaza January 9, 2009. Israel pushed ahead with its two-week-old ...
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