International newspapers covered the news of the truce taking effect in the Gaza Strip and what is related to it. A Financial Times report spoke of Israel’s allies’ tendency to adopt tougher positions towards the situation in the Strip, while the New York Times said that the rate of killing of civilians in Gaza is unprecedented in decades.

On Friday morning, a humanitarian truce took effect in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which includes the exchange of 50 civilian women and children prisoners in the Strip in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli prisons.

A report in the Financial Times started from the diplomatic crisis between Israel on the one hand and Spain and Belgium on the other, to talk about the tendency of Israel’s allies to adopt a tougher stance towards it because of the horrific human cost of the war, according to the newspaper’s expression.

The newspaper also saw that European Union countries are divided over the amount of pressure that should be exerted on Israel to limit the consequences of its bombing and allow aid to enter Gaza.

While the New York Times said that an analysis of data from some conflicts revealed that the rate of killing of civilians in Gaza during the Israeli military campaign is unprecedented in decades.

It pointed out that the number of children and women killed in Gaza in less than two months is more than double the number of deaths of both groups in Ukraine after two years of war, pointing out that experts are astonished by Israel's excessive use of heavy weapons in a densely populated urban center.

For its part, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper believes that Israel will face the biggest dilemma when Hamas declares its readiness to negotiate regarding the other hostages in order to extend the ceasefire and make it permanent, which means a victory for it.

It pointed out that the truce may allow the Israeli army to restructure its forces, but at the same time it will allow Hamas to greatly harm Israel’s deterrence policy, the newspaper said.

In turn, Le Monde newspaper suggested - in its editorial - that Israel take advantage of the truce to assess the great destruction in Gaza, adding that the goal that Israel is trying to achieve does not seem close, even if the southern part is exposed to the same thing as the north.

The newspaper believed that maintaining the existing truce in Gaza is necessary so that those detained by Hamas can leave Gaza, and the Palestinians can also access humanitarian aid.

As for the Wall Street Journal, it highlighted that some of the displaced Palestinians in Gaza after the start of the truce had the opportunity to return to their homes and property to inspect them after the great destruction caused by the war.

The newspaper saw that the truce represented an opportunity for many Palestinians in Gaza to search for ways to check on their relatives who had no news from them due to the damage to the communications network while specialized teams were trying to repair what they could during the truce.

Source: Al Jazeera