[Reuters] Adam Entous - Israel has rebuffed some of the conditions set by Hamas for a cease-fire, Israeli and Western sources said on Friday. Israel had objected to putting a time limit on the truce. Hamas proposed a 12-month agreement that could later be extended. "A time limit on any period of quiet is a mistake," a senior Israeli source said. "We saw that when the previous calm ran out of time, it was just an excuse for some to escalate the violence."
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