Palestinian terrorist groups refused a cease-fire despite assurances that Washington would pressure Israel to reciprocate. On their second day of meetings with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah in Gaza City on Wednesday, Egyptian mediators renewed a unilateral cease-fire proposal that they had made at a previous round of Cairo talks two weeks ago.
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