‘I can’t believe I have survived’: the day the Gaza ceasefire finally arrived
The deal has made it possible to hope that the nightmares of the Israeli hostages and the people of Gaza can begin to end
From a ridge on the western edge of Sderot, the ruins of Gaza loom. Less than a kilometre separates the Israeli town and the outskirts of the Palestinian territory, but after 471 days of war, the other side of the fence from Sderot’s shrubby dunes resembles a dystopian parallel universe.
A few minutes before a long-awaited ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict was supposed to begin at 8.30am local time (0630 GMT) on Sunday, the morning quiet was shattered by an Israeli airstrike on Beit Hanoun, the Gaza town visible from the ridge.
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