Egypt’s state-affiliated Al-Qahera News TV has said Gaza ceasefire negotiations will resume in Doha on Wednesday and then return to Cairo on Thursday after talks between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, Reuters reports.

An Egyptian security delegation will head to Qatar’s capital on Wednesday “on a mission to bring viewpoints closer between Hamas and Israel in order to reach a truce agreement as soon as possible”, Al-Qahera News quoted a senior source as saying.

“There is an agreement over many points,” the senior source said, adding the negotiations will be back in Cairo on Thursday.

“President Sisi affirmed the Egyptian position rejecting the continuation of military operations in the Gaza Strip,” the presidency said in a statement after his meeting with Burns in Cairo.

Sisi also stressed the need to take “serious and effective steps” to prevent the expansion of the Gaza conflict in the wider region, the presidency added.