Egypt has stepped up efforts to restart talks aiming to secure a truce in Israel’s war on Gaza and a hostage-prisoner exchange, state-linked Al-Qahera News said Tuesday. Negotiations involving Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators have been at a stalemate since early May, when Israel sent ground forces into the southern Gazan city of Rafah and seized the Palestinian side of the nearby border crossing with Egypt. Al-Qahera News, which is linked to Egyptian state intelligence, said Cairo had “intensified efforts to relaunch” negotiations for a “truce and a detainee exchange deal”. “We have informed …