BBC News with Nick Kelly.

The Israeli Cabinet has been meeting to discuss the future of the military operation in the Gaza Strip following six days of violence. The Israeli public radio said the ministers gathered at the Defense Ministry were considering a ceasefire plan put forward by Egypt. President Obama has spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Mursi of Egypt. Israel and Hamas have both set up their conditions for a truce. The Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil who is leading mediation efforts said that could soon be an agreement.

I think we are close at the nature of this kind of negotiation, you know, it's very difficult to predict but... and we're very eager to stop this yesterday or even should have not started.

A leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has been killed in a second Israeli air attack on a building used by media organizations in Gaza. Israel said four senior members of Islamic Jihad were hiding there.

The Colombia rebel group, the FARC, has declared a unilateral ceasefire as it begins the first face-to-face peace talks with the government in a decade. The two sides are meeting in Cuba to try to find a solution to almost 50 years of conflict. From Havana, here's Sarah Rainsford.

The chief negotiator for the FARC made his announcement that his delegation arrived for the peace talks. Ivan Marquez said all fighters had been ordered to stop all offensive military operation and acts of sabotage from midnight on Monday. The unilateral ceasefire with no apparent conditions attached will last two months, and it's the first of its kind in a decade. The Colombian government delegation entered without comments.