While it appeared that relative calm had returned to the area on Saturday, Phyllis Bennis, a programme director at the US-based Institute for Policy Studies, said it was unlikely that any ceasefire agreement would hold.
"It is important that they use the word calm [in the announcement] and not the word peace," Bennis told Al Jazeera.
"There has been no calm in Gaza for many, many decades," she said. "If there is a ceasefire that holds briefly it will not hold for very long I'm afraid."
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"It is important that they use the word calm [in the announcement] and not the word peace," Bennis told Al Jazeera.
"There has been no calm in Gaza for many, many decades," she said. "If there is a ceasefire that holds briefly it will not hold for very long I'm afraid."
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