Ramadan is a time when families traditionally buy presents and new clothes, and when each night tens of thousands and on Fridays hundreds of thousands come to pray at the al-Aqsa mosque. The less devout fill the cafés and restaurants once the fasting is over, deep into the night. Hamas is anxious to restore its rule. It is demanding that, during the truce, Israel should remove its cordon that cuts off Gaza city from the southern parts of the strip, where most of Hamas’s surviving fighters are hiding. Israel is unlikely to allow full freedom of movement and has its own key demand: it wants a list of all the Israeli hostages still alive. Do you think there will be a ceasefire ?

