Egyptian security officials have held talks with Palestinian Authority officials and Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip in recent days in part to prevent a new flare-up of tensions between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, PA officials said Sunday.

The Egyptian delegation led by deputy intelligence chief Ayman Badie was in the Gaza Strip on Friday and Saturday and Judea and Samaria on Saturday,the officials said.

A statement on Saturday from Islamist terror group Hamas said the discussions included talks on “understandings with the enemy” — a reference to a fragile ceasefire with Israel tested in recent days.

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