Envoy says stalled Gaza ceasefire has failed to meet expectations of Israel, Palestine

Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for the International Board of Peace overseeing the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, acknowledged on Tuesday that little progress had been made.“Seven months since the ceasefire, the door to the future of Gaza is still closed. It is not what the Palestinians were promised and it is not what they deserve. And it is not giving Israel the security to move forward, as the Israeli people also want,” he said.For the latest updates on the Israel-Palestine conflict, visit our dedicated page.Since the Board began convening last year, little progress has been made on key tenets of the phased ceasefire, including disarming Hamas and other militant groups and starting to reconstruct the mostly destroyed enclave after two years of war.“We have a ceasefire. It is holding. It is not perfect. It is far from perfect. There are violations every day, and some of them are very serious,” Mladenov said during a press conference in Jerusalem.Read more: Israeli strikes in

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