Ceasefire talks give hope. But Gaza’s reality couldn’t be more brutal

On Tuesday afternoon, 25-year-old Hanadi Ahmed brought her two young children, Mohammed, 6, and Haya, 4, to visit her aunt in a tent camp in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of central Gaza City. Just minutes after she arrived, an Israeli airstrike targeted the encampment — the missile landing barely meters away from Hanadi and her family.

Six people were killed in the strike, including three children, and dozens more were wounded. “They were making tea on the fire when…