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For a Gazan perspective on the prospect of a cease-fire, Robert Siegel talks to Mukhaimer Abu Sada, a political scientist at Al-Azhar University. They discuss the Israeli air strikes in Gaza and what must happen before fighting settles.

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — When a woman's pickup stalled on a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico, local chef Jackson Ault stopped to lend a hand.

Ault and the driver both ended up with a surprise Thursday when Ault popped the hood and found a brown and yellow python slithering across the engine block.

A police lieutenant responded to a call for help. He retrieved the 20-pound snake.

The python was taken to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter, where spokesman Ben Swan says the reptile has minor injuries but otherwise is in good shape.

Police say the snake likely crawled into the pickup at the motorist's home several blocks from where the vehicle stalled. And Ault says he thinks the truck stalled because the snake dislodged an electrical wire.

Authorities say the owner hasn't turned up yet.

Egypt has proposed a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza that would take effect Tuesday.

Egypt's foreign ministry has called for Israel and Palestinians in Gaza to de-escalate their conflict by 2 a.m. Eastern Time (9 a.m. in Israel). A full ceasefire would go into effect within 12 hours.

"The proposal, which was published on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry's expected visit to Cairo, states that Israel would end all 'hostilities' in the Gaza Strip from the land, air and sea and would refrain from launching a ground offensive that targets civilians," the Jerusalem Post reports.

Israel's security cabinet will meet Tuesday morning to discuss the proposal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Netanyahu supports the Egyptian proposal for ceasefire in Gaza and will ask the cabinet [to] accept it," tweets Barak Ravid, diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, citing an "Israeli official." But not all Israeli leaders are on board.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, in a televised address Monday, did not reveal how the organization, which governs the Gaza Strip, stands on Egypt's proposal.

He did say that Hamas is "open to all initiatives to end Israeli aggression," according to The Guardian, which is live-blogging reaction to the proposal.

If the two sides do agree to a ceasefire on Tuesday, it would be an unconditional truce. Within 48 hours of the ceasefire, both Israeli and Palestinian officials would travel to Cairo.

There, they would hold talks with neutral mediators, but not with each other.

Egypt mediated a truce between Israel and Hamas in 2012.