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Home / Israel-Hamas / With ceasefire and hostage deal, Gaza clears a hurdle. Taller ones remain.
Israel‑Hamas, Israel, Middle East

October 10, 2025

With ceasefire and hostage deal, Gaza clears a hurdle. Taller ones remain.

“A lot more has to happen to say this tragic episode is really closed,” says Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. “The question now is, do President Trump and his administration have the staying power to see this through to something beyond the first phase that actually resembles peace?”

Read at Christian Science Monitor

Featuring

Stephen
Walt

Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations

Harvard University

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