ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Tuesday (August 26) a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel has been reached under Egyptian mediation.<br/> <br />There was no immediate confirmation from Israel, where a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment.<br/> <br />"I would like to announce the agreement of the Palestinian leadership to the invitation by our brotherly Egypt to a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire starting at 19:00 tonight local Cairo and Palestine time," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said.<br/> <br />Cairo's initiative, Palestinians officials said, called for an indefinite halt to seven weeks of hostilities, the immediate opening of Gaza's blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt and a widening of the enclave's fishing zone in the Mediterranean.<br/> <br />Under a second stage that would begin a month later, Israel and the Palestinians would discuss the construction of a Gaza sea port and an Israeli release of H
