Friday’s pause in the fighting comes after several weeks of tough negotiations between Israel, Hamas, the U.S., Egypt and Qatar. It is the first significant break in combat since the Hamas infiltration attack into southern Israel on October 7, which killed some 1,200 people and saw around 240 taken back into the Gaza Strip as hostages.
It was always going to be a cease fire by the military of the international recognized legitimate more or less democratic government and hopefully-less-shooting by the terrorist organization hand picked by Netanyahu to run Gaza.
Israel should stick to reducing or eliminating civilian casualties even as it continues to work to degrade or destroy legitimate Hamas targets. They shouldn’t be shooting any more missiles into Gaza.