Jerusalem  - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will travel to Cairo Thursday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak on the escalating violence between Israel and Palestinian Gazan militant organizations following the end of a six-month truce Friday.

The talks are at Mubarak's invitation, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Monday night. The statement said that while in the Egyptian capital, Livni is also expected to hold other meetings. It gave no further details.

The end of the truce, at Friday at 6 am (0400 GMT) led to a surge of missile attacks, mainly from the Islamic Jihad group, on southern Israeli towns and villages. That was matched by Israeli airstrikes on rocket-launching squads.

However, on Monday, Hamas, which administers the Gaza Strip, said it had agreed to an Egyptian request to a 24-hour ceasefire, to allow an Egyptian aid convoy into the salient. dpa