GazaA smoke plume billows following an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan. Friday’s ceasefire is the first cessation in fighting in more than six months and the closest that Israel and Hamas have come to permanently ending the war in Gaza. Israel’s two-year military campaign in Gaza killed more than 67,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly 170,000 more, according to the Gaza ministry of health. Tens of thousands more bodies are expected to be buried under the rubble.
