CNN has received confirmation that the Israeli Cabinet has rejected the temporary truce presented by John Kerry in its present form. Israel is reportedly asking for changes and clarifications and may revisit the proposal once it receives answers.

Wolf Blitzer spoke to Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, who reported the proposal was unanimously rejected by the entire Israeli cabinet (as opposed to the security cabinet which consists of security and defense-related ministries only). Blitzer's full report is above. The unanimous full cabinet vote is significant because it means even the liberal cabinet members, such as Tzipi Livni, rejected the proposal.

Israel does not like this current proposal. They are opening it up for modifications. They want clarifications. But the proposal that was put forward by Secretary Kerry to the Israeli cabinet has been unanimously rejected by Israel during these emergency meetings in Tel Aviv.

The cabinet is going to resume meetings, even though it is the start of the Jewish Sabbath in this part of the world, it is already sundown. But they're getting ready to meet again. They want modifications; the proposal that was put forward has been unanimously rejected.

That word from one of the Israel cabinet ministers, Yuval Steinitz, the minister of intelligence who earlier told us a cease-fire doesn't seem close, now it doesn't seem close at all. 

Soon after the Blitzer announcement, U.S. Secretary of State Kerry spoke from Cairo and was upbeat about the future of the deal despite the rejection. The video below joins the statement soon after it began as the feed used by all the news networks was having technical problems:

Now, why are we not announcing that that has been found yet tonight? For a simple reason, we still have some terminology in the context of the framework to work through. But we are confident we have a fundamental framework that can and will ultimately work. And what we need to do is continue to work for that. And that's exactly what we're going to do.

We believe that seven days will give all the parties the opportunity to step back from the violence and focus on the underlying causes, perhaps takes some steps that could build some confidence and begin to change the choices for all. We don't yet have that final framework. But I will tell you this. None of us here are stopping. We are going to continue the conversations, and right now before I came in here tonight, I had conversations with people on both sides of this conflict. I just spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu who made it clear he wants to try to find this way forward. I thank the secretary general, who has graciously called for a 12-hour cease-fire, which I will speak to in a moment, about that possibility and where we will go.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has indicated his willingness to do that [a 12-hour cease-fire] as a good-faith down payment and to move forward. I'm grateful to the secretary general for his leadership in that regard. But in the end, the only way this issue is going to be resolved, this conflict, is for the parties to be able to come together and work through it as people have in conflicts throughout history. And it's our hope, and we intend to do everything possible.

Tomorrow I will be in Paris, where I will meet with some of our counterparts, my counterparts, and where I will also meet with other players who are important to this discussion in an effort to be able to try to see if we can narrow the gap. And Prime Minister Netanyahu is committed to try to help do that over the course of the next day. So we begin with at least the hope of a down payment on a cease-fire with the possibility of extension, a real possibility. And hopefully if we can make some progress, and the people in this region who deserve peace can find at least one step towards that elusive goal. Thank you.