GAZA TRUCE TALKS FALTER

Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces' withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources familiar with the negotiations in Doha said Saturday.

- REUTERS

The indirect talks over a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire are nonetheless expected to continue, the sources said.

In Gaza, medics said 17 people trying to get food aid were killed Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire, the latest mass shooting around a US-backed aid distribution system that the UN says has resulted in 800 people killed in six weeks.

Witnesses who spoke to Reuters described people being shot in the head and torso.

Reuters saw several bodies of victims wrapped in white shrouds as family members wept at Nasser Hospital.