Sentence examples for mediate a cease-fire from inspiring English sources

The flare-up in violence seemed likely to complicate Egyptian efforts to mediate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

The wali, or governor, of South Darfur called a peace conference and urged neutral tribes to mediate a cease-fire.

Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, the American special envoy who tried unsuccessfully to mediate a cease-fire, asked for permission to see Mr. Arafat today.

Another front of the effort by the United States, the attempts by its envoy, Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, to mediate a cease-fire, also seemed stalled.

The effort to mediate a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel is filled with potential pitfalls, Israeli, Egyptian and American officials said.

While administration officials still say they do not plan to deal directly with Hamas, the United States has given tacit support to an attempt by Egyptian officials to mediate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza.

Early Tuesday, news reports citing unnamed Egyptian officials said that Egypt had mediated a cease-fire.

President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood's party did not want to get dragged into a total breach with Israel on behalf of Hamas, and instead threw Egypt's weight into mediating a cease-fire.

Then, with both countries exhausted and hundreds of thousands dead on both sides, the United Nations mediated a cease-fire.

Your visit comes as Egypt continues its efforts to mediate a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, to facilitate intra-Palestinian negotiations to form a new, interim government, and to stop the smuggling of arms into Gaza.

Israel could have asked Egypt, whose new Islamist-led government has close ties to Hamas, to mediate a more permanent cease-fire.