OTTAWA — With Hamas proving an unreliable partner in keeping the peace, prospects remain dim for the maintenance of the unsteady ceasefire in Gaza.

Joe Varner, deputy director of the Conference of Defence Associations and Senior Fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute, tells the Toronto Sun the deck was stacked against the ceasefire from the very beginning.

“Hamas has been in violation of the ceasefire it agreed to 72 hours after came into effect, because they didn’t return all the hostages’ remains,” he said.

“The ceasefire is broken down on that level — Hamas is refusing to disarm.”

Israel unleashed a wave of air and artillery strikes over the weekend in retaliation for the killing of two IDF soldiers by Palestinian terrorists — more evidence suggesting that Hamas, despite their retu

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