Peace, this is quoted from The Christian Science Monitor in April this year and outlines the 'cease fire' offer

'The proposal Hamas put forward on Thursday could be extended to a year-long agreement.

Al-Zahar said other Palestinian factions, including Islamic Jihad and groups based in Damascus, had preliminarily approved the offer.

"The key condition for this ceasefire is that Israel should re-open all the crossings ... to lift the embargo on the Palestinian people"

Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas spokesman, told Al Jazeera that it would aim to begin improving the situation in Gaza first, and then expand to the West Bank as well.

He said: "I think the key condition for this ceasefire is that Israel should re-open all the crossings [into Gaza], especially the Rafah crossing, in order to allow people and goods to move in and out and to lift the embargo on the Palestinian people.

Israel rejected a cease-fire offer from the Palestinian group Hamas as a humanitarian aid crisis erupting in the Gaza Strip threatened wider instability.

The crisis in the troubled Palestinian territory deepened as President Bush, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington, offered assurances that a two-state deal is possible before he leaves office in January.'

If Isreal HAD been able to stop the rocket launches by military tactics alone I'm sure it would have done so, the problem is that the 'seige' of one and a half million men women and children behind a wall of shame is the method that they are trying.