BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT — Would possibly a Gaza peace settlement carry profit past the besieged Gaza Strip? That’s the tantalizing hope expressed by a number of U.S. officers and Center East negotiators concerned within the lengthy and painstaking course of to provide a ceasefire-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas – a deal which, as of late Thursday, nonetheless awaited the Israeli authorities’s last approval.
For the folks of Gaza, what issues is the deal itself, and its provisions for a six-week ceasefire, throughout which Israeli forces would retreat to a small buffer zone alongside the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel; a big inflow of badly-needed humanitarian support; and a return residence for tens of hundreds of displaced Palestinians in Gaza – at the very least for these whose houses are nonetheless standing. For Israelis, the settlement holds the promise of the return of hostages nonetheless held in Gaza, and a return residence for Israeli troopers who’ve been waging a troublesome warfare contained in the territory.
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