Israel and Hamas have agreed to an Egyptian proposal for a three-day ceasefire in Gaza starting at 6am tomorrow morning.

Egypt has also invited senior Palestinian and Israeli representatives to Cairo for talks on a permanent truce.

More than 1,800 Palestinians have been killed in nearly 4 weeks of fighting.

Israel has lost 64 soldiers in combat, and three people were killed in the country.

Our reporter Shona Murray is in Gaza City- she says the town of Rafah may not be included in the truce: