A Palestinian girl, hoping to cross into Egypt, waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip August 12, 2014. Egypt-sponsored talks, which are going on in Cairo for five days between Israel and the Palestinian factions, haven't so far achieved any tangible progress to declare a permanent truce that ends the bloody fighting in the Gaza Strip, as a 72-hour ceasefire in the shattered Palestinian enclave held for a second day. (Xinhua/Khaled Omar)
