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The meeting of Israel´s security Cabinet comes a day after France and Egypt sketched a proposal to stop the fighting. The initiative was spurred on by an Israeli mortar strike near a United Nations school the U.N. says killed 40 Palestinians.
The U.S. has endorsed the proposal. Israel has yet to give its response.
Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because no decision has been made, say Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his top ministers will consider the proposal today or whether to press ahead with the 12-day operation meant to stop rocket fire into Israel.
Israel has killed more than 600 Palestinians in the fighting.
The United Nations agency dealing with Palestinian refugees says it´s certain that Hamas militants were not using its school to attack Israeli troops.
Israel said militants fired mortar shells at its troops from outside the school, drawing return fire.
Christopher Guinness of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency said today ``UNWRA is 99.9 percent certain there were no militants or military activity in its school.´´
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