For both Israelis and Palestinians, the sealing of a cease-fire has spurred joy and celebration but it has also come at a price for both peoples.
Israel decided to absolutely decimate Gaza, tried to wage a multi-front war in the region, and now occupy parts of Gaza and southern Syria, but consider the cost for 
After using Gaza as a springboard to launch the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas still controls most of the territory, allowing its surviving members to parade jubilantly through several Gaza cities after the truce began. For Israelis who still seek the group’s complete defeat, these scenes were a gut-punch.
Still using this dumbass line about the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust in the face of Israel accelerating its genocide of Palestinians over the past year.
Others could stomach Hamas’s survival if it led to the release of all the hostages still held by the group in Gaza. But the compromise reached by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, only guarantees the release of a third of them. Even those will be freed at a high price — in exchange for prisoners convicted of some of the most notorious terrorist attacks in Israeli history, in addition to scores of women and minors held without charge.
How nice that to this point the author keeps on talking about how some of the Palestinians being released have killed settlers, only to bury the fact that there are many who are being held hostage for no reason, including children.
