A senior Palestinian delegation arrived in Cairo on Saturday to discuss a truce in the Gaza Strip, even though Israel has said it would not send representatives for the talks.

The Palestinian delegation, which included the Palestinian Authority's spy chief Majid Faraj, will be joined by Hamas representatives and meet Egyptian officials on Sunday.

The Philippines urged its thousands of workers in Libya on Saturday to leave the strife-torn nation now while they still can, warning that the remaining exit routes were closing fast.

Israel declared an end to a three-day Gaza truce only hours after it began Friday, saying it fears one of its soldiers was captured as intensive shelling killed dozens of people in southern Gaza hours into the short-lived truce.

Hamas accused Israel of breaking the ceasefire as Tel Aviv said it was responding to rocket fire.

New Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will not attend an unprecedented gathering of African leaders here next week, a U.S. official said Thursday, after he was given a belated invitation.

Australian journalist Peter Greste is "coping well" in jail since his conviction by an Egyptian court, his parents said Thursday, but said the family were devastated by the many months he has already spent behind bars.

"In his mind, and in ours too, there’s absolutely no way he’s going to be there for the next seven years," his mother, 75-year-old Lois Greste, said, while accompanied by her husband, Juris Greste, 78.

Three people were killed when two bombs they were carrying in a pick-up truck went off prematurely south of Cairo, Egyptian government and security forces announced on Wednesday.

The three, who were allegedly planning an attack, were killed outright when the truck was completely blown apart in the village of Shurafa.

A nine-year-old girl was killed on Monday when a rocket hit the ground outside a house in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, in an apparent attack targeting soldiers, security officials said.

Another girl, 10, was wounded in the blast south of the town of Sheikh Zuwaid in northern Sinai.

Egypt on Monday condemned Israel for using what it said was "excessive force" against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

It also urged Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian movement that dominates the Gaza Strip, to abide by the "humanitarian truce" proposed by Cairo and backed by the United Nations to end the 21-day conflict.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is to head a team including Hamas for talks in Cairo on sealing a Gaza ceasefire between the Islamist movement and Israel, an official said Monday.

"Abbas is forming a Palestinian delegation including Hamas and Islamic Jihad representatives to meet Egyptian leaders and discuss a halt to Israel's aggression against Gaza," said the senior official in the West Bank city of Ramallah where the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority is based.

Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has praised the Palestinian "resistance" over the 21-day conflict with Israel in Gaza that has killed more than 1,030 people, mostly Palestinian civilians.

The Islamist leader, overthrown last July by Egypt's then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is on trial on charges for which he faces the death penalty.