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Respite on the Road to Nowhere?

WASHINGTON - An informal truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect early Thursday morning, temporarily suspending a year of fighting that has left more than 600 Palestinians -- many of them civilians -- and 18 Israelis dead.

The guns fell silent at 6 a.m. amid scepticism that the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire will actually hold. The next 48 hours will determine whether both sides halt their cross-border fighting in exchange for a partial and gradual easing of Israel's economic blockade of Gaza.