Gaza Conflict: Egypt Sets Out Ceasefire Plan

Egypt has proposed a ceasefire to end fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, state media is reporting.

The proposal calls for "unconditional acceptance" by 7am (UK time) on Tuesday. Both sides would then get 12 hours to implement the truce before participating in talks within two days in Cairo.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet on Tuesday to discuss the plan, and will likely demand guarantees of an extended period of quiet.

Meanwhile, a senior Hamas official said the group, who want an easing of the Israeli-Egyptian blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza, was studying the proposal.

"We are not begging for a ceasefire, but at the same time, we are not going to reject any understanding that can change the current living conditions in Gaza," he told AP on the condition of anonymity.

It comes as Israel charged three people with killing a Palestinian teenager who was set on fire and left in a forest.

Mohammed Abu Khadeir's mother shows a picture of him on her phone

Mohammed Abu Khadeir was taken from his home in east Jerusalem and apparently burned alive in revenge for the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers, according to Israel's Shin Bet security service.

The three people, two of them aged just 17, charged over the 16-year-old Palestinian's death have admitted the killing and even re-enacted the murder, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

Shin Bet said the three suspects "patrolled Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem for a number of hours, in an attempt to find a victim to abduct, until they spotted Mohammed Abu Khudair".

After forcing him into a car, he was driven to the forest where he was beaten before before set on fire, the agency added.

Hamas militants were blamed for the killing of the three Israelis.

Since the deaths Israel has launched a concerted military operation against the group in the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet flies over the Gaza Strip on Monday

Rocket attacks and airstrikes between Israel and Gaza continue a week on from the start of an Israeli offensive.

At least 172 Palestinians have been killed in the offensive, which Israel says is aimed at halting rocket attacks across the border.

At least one such rocket was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Monday, the Israeli military said. There were no immediate reports of casualties but Israel confirmed it responded by shelling the launch site.

More than 40 sites were bombed on Sunday night, while the Israeli military said it had shot down a drone from Gaza - the first one used by Palestinian militants in the latest violence.

Elsewhere, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes with stone-throwers in the occupied West Bank.

Activists said Israel also detained dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israeli tanks near the border with the Gaza Strip

The Palestinian Prisoners Club, which campaigns for Palestinians jailed by Israel, said 57 people were seized overnight, including 12 Hamas politicians.

That brings the number of Palestinians arrested since last month to 1,071, it said.

The Israeli military confirmed 25 arrests in the West Bank on Sunday night.

In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called the West Bank arrests "a continued Israeli escalation against our people".

Thousands of residents in northern Gaza have fled their homes after the Israeli military warned them to leave for their own safety.

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