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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-a-true-long-term-deal-for-the-gaza-strip-is-still-a-long-way-off/
Long-Term Gaza Deal Is Still a Long Way Off
(Times of Israel) Avi Issacharoff - Hamas does not view the ongoing protests along the border with Israel, or the kite and balloon arson attacks, as a violation of any ceasefire agreement. Hamas sees those attacks as part of the popular Palestinian struggle against Israel. However, Israel is unlikely to accept a ceasefire arrangement in which Gazans remain free to riot and burn Israeli farmland. The bottom line is that any arrangement with Hamas is not likely to be dramatic or all that significant. It would provide for a ceasefire, but one along the lines of the deal that ended the 2014 war in Gaza. It would be a mini-ceasefire, nothing more.