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GAZA CITY — The Israeli military says all its ground troops will have pulled out of the Gaza Strip by the start of the cease-fire agreed to by both sides in the war.

The announcement came after Israel and Hamas accepted a three-day cease-fire proposal from Egypt to begin Tuesday morning, even after several earlier attempts at a truce collapsed within a few hours.

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