Fragile Gaza Truce Back on Track After Hourslong Delay in Hostage-for-Prisoner Swap

The pause has given some respite to Gaza’s 2.3 million people and halted the constant barrage of rocket attacks on Israel from the strip.

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A woman looks at an installation of a doll as a child, symbol of children missing and held captive at Gaza, in Tel Aviv. AP/Ariel Schalit

The tense cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appeared to be back on track early Sunday after the release of a second group of hostages held by the terrorists and Palestinian felons from Israeli prisons, but the swap followed an hourslong delay that underscored the truce’s fragility.

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