After more than 15 months of unremitting bloodshed in Gaza, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage-release agreement, hammered out under fraught diplomatic conditions, marks an important but tenuous beginning. The agreement entails Israel freeing Palestinian prisoners in return for Hamas’s freeing 33 living hostages under a 42-day truce. However welcome such moments may be for those […]
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