Jerusalem: Ten days into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, relief is giving way to grim acknowledgments of the truce’s tenuousness, and of the need for continued outside intervention to keep it alive, let alone to make further progress.

A new round of violence on Sunday showed just how arduous the road to a broader agreement in the Gaza Strip will be between the two sides, which have repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and another was wounded when Palestinian militants launched an anti-tank missile at an army vehicle, the Israeli military said. The attack took place in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on the Israeli-held eastern side of the ceasefire line. Israel called it a blatant violation of the agreement’s terms. Hamas officials were q

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