Mediators pushed on with efforts for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire as fighting raged on in the besieged Gaza Strip on February 1, deepening a dire humanitarian crisis. The Israeli military said troops had ‘eliminated dozens of terrorists’ in the past day and destroyed a long-range missile launcher in the embattled southern city of Khan Younis. The Qatar-based leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh was expected in Cairo on Thursday or Friday for talks on a proposed truce. The group was reviewing a proposal for a six-week pause in its war with Israel, a Hamas source said, after mediators gathered in Paris…