After two years of relentless bombardment, starvation, and siege, Hamas and Israel have inked a ceasefire-and-hostage deal in Sharm el-Sheikh. For the exhausted residents of Gaza, this ceasefire offers an exhale, not a promise. Islamabad has hailed Hamas’s conditional acceptance of the accord as a window for a ceasefire, though more than sixty thousand Palestinians […]
Bombardment
Death toll in Syria enclave tops 500 after UN delays truce vote
DAMASCUS: New air strikes on the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Saturday took the civilian death toll from seven days of devastating bombardment to more than 500 after the United Nations again delayed a vote on a ceasefire. More than 120 children have been among the dead in the bombing campaign that the […]