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Palestinians pray over the bodies of nineteen people killed near a United Nations school Tuesday, during their funeral in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Israel`s military paused its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country`s leaders debated whether to accept an international cease-fire plan or expand the assault against Hamas. With criticism rising of the operation`s spiraling civilian death toll and Gazans increasingly suffering the effects of nonstop airstrikes and shelling, Israel`s military said it opened `humanitarian corridors` to allow aid supplies to reach Palestinians.