The Economist: After the Ceasefire An Old DAWN!

In the first light of the first day of the ceasefire, Gazans filed to mourning ceremonies postponed because of the bombing. In the garden outside the bedroom of Faris Bassioun, aged nine, killed in his sleep by the shrapnel of three Israeli missiles that ploughed into the neighboring orchard. Now olive trees are charred and twisted. Lemons lie on the ground, roasted and black from the blast. "Don't give us a six year ceasefire, give us a hundred," cries Hanan Shabat,, the mother of three children, who are now in hospital in Beit Hanoun, in north east Gaza, after shrapnel smashed into their bedroom. "What's the point of raising my child only to be killed when he's 11?" she says, crouched on a sofa littered with glass shards. The clean up has already begun. Worshipers hover over the thick cream carpets of the Istiqama mosque, whose walls were toppled by the blast, and Hamas guards are already back at their posts, entering the passport details of those coming in and out into their computers. "We have won the freedom to move," said one. "That is our victory." Hamas cadres have particular reason to celebrate. For over six years, Israel, the region and western powers, led by the United States, hahe tried to bypass the movement that won the 2006 elections. Unlike the ceasefire that ended Israel's 2009 offensive, its terms include an end to Israeli incursions and the restoration of civilian life, in what Israel calls its buffer zone. Hillary Clinton promised to help Gaza, without insisting that the aid go through the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. No one mentioned the conditions laid down by the quartet of America, Russia,, the European Union and the UN for dealing with Hamas. Israel, backed by the US, demonstrated its military superiority once again.