Since Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip a year ago, it’s been a pressure cooker, with Palestinian militants firing Qassam rockets on Israel, and the Israeli Army responding with deadly airstrikes.

“Welcome to Hell,” is how one young Palestinian greeted me this week, as I arrived in Gaza with cameraman Chris Jackson for the start of the cease-fire.

Life in Gaza should improve if it holds,
and the Israelis ease the blockade on goods arriving.

Just a few days before going to Gaza I was in the town of Sderot, one of the main targets on the Israeli side for the Qassams. Life looked a little hellish there, as well.

Getting warnings a half-dozen times a day to race for a shelter because of incoming rockets is no way to live. Making the cease-fire last won’t be easy, but there are good reasons on both sides at least to try.

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