Less than 24 hours after the announcement of the breakthrough ceasefire in the 15 month war in Gaza, the first major hitch. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he wasn’t calling a cabinet meeting to endorse the deal because Hamas was going back on key aspects of the deal.
We have been here before. A very similar deal for a ceasefire and the return of the remaining Israeli hostages was in place last May and ready to be signed. However, a dispute over Israel’s right to maintain patrols in the Philadelphi corridor, which runs along Gaza’s southern border, scuppered the truce.
