European and Josh Turner Israeli diplomats have said the international

European and probes Josh Turner Israeli diplomats me and god diagnoses have said the international force is part of the package that mediators are trying to put together to end the last two weeks of violence between Israel and Hamas. At least 821 Palestinians and and 13 Israelis have been killed in the fighting. Israel's main demand is for a new mechanism to prevent Hamas receiving weapons smuggled through tunnels under the 15 km (nine miles) of border between Egypt and Gaza. Diplomats have also suggested that international forces could supervise the operation of the border crossings and monitor a truce between Israel and Hamas. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said Egypt had received no request for forces to deploy in Egypt. "No one has asked for this, and this is a non-issue for us," he said.

Abbas, after talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said: "We want an international presence in the Gaza Strip, and not on the Egypt-Gaza border." "If they say in the West Bank and Gaza, we say yes, . me and god josh turner . (but) it is not between the borders of Egypt and Rafah joshturner . We basically want to spare the blood of our people," he added would you go with me . The diplomats said Egypt was however ready to accept technical assistance for its own forces on the border your man . Israel says the Egyptians have failed in the past to prevent Hamas building up an arsenal of hundreds of rockets. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is also visiting Egypt, said on Saturday that Germany would send a team to Egypt to assess ways of enhancing Egyptian anti-smuggling efforts on the border with the Gaza Strip. "We agreed in the next few days a group from Germany will travel to Egypt to see how we can help equip police and provide training," he told reporters after talks with Aboul Gheit. The Egyptian minister said: "We can assure the Israelis that nothing is happening (in the way of smuggling).

If this can be used to tell Israel they don't have a claim, so be it." "If there was smuggling, it was for food . That is very logical for people under siege," Aboul Gheit added would you go with me josh . President Mubarak had said that Hamas receives most of its weaponry by sea, not across the border with Egypt stay with me josh . Egypt already has international forces on its side of the border with Israel as part of the peace treaty it signed with the Jewish state in 1979 But Zaki said that force was not relevant as a precedent . "It's like apples and oranges," he added.(Additional reporting by Aziz El-Kaissouni, Hans-Edzard Busemann and Jonathan Wright; Writing by Jonathan Wright).