GAZA, March 6 (Reuters) - Egypt began talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Thursday on a truce between the Palestinian militant movements and Israel, sources in the groups said.

Gaza leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, groups that have been firing rockets into southern Israel, met Egyptian officials in El Arish, an Egyptian town just south of the Gaza Strip. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Writing by Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem, Editing by Adam Entous)

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