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I don't want to be overly fatalist, but given that Hamas has resolved to attack Israel indefinitely, I don't see how a ceasefire can achieve much.
I can just about imagine 10 days of peace. Hamas would then feel obliged to resume the war and the flow of martyrs. A number of children could be saved from starvation during those 10 days. But that number would be eclipsed by the children killed in subsequent Israeli retaliations.
The Hamas strategy is for children to carry on being martyred until the final victory. Which won't happen. No nation or militia is going to invade Israel and save the Palestinians, even if 50 million people around the world go on demos. And there is no plan B for peaceful Palestinian leaders to replace Hamas and negotiate with Israel.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy recently tried to get a Hamas leader to discuss his
strategy. It was very dispiriting. https://www.channel4.com/news/israel-is-not-ready-to-pay-the-tax-of-a-peace-deal-says-hamas-representative-in-iran