Why is there still no Gaza ceasefire?

Netanyahu knows he’s barely clinging to power, Biden is playing a bigger game, and Hamas’s leadership cares little for the vast suffering since October 7, writes Simon Tisdall

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are treated in a hospital in Deir al Balah. Picture: AP

The people of Gaza cry out for a ceasefire. Each day brings more bloodshed, more devastation, hunger, disease, and tears. 

Spell it out: nearly 28,000 Palestinians dead. In total, about 100,000 killed, injured or missing. Among the survivors, huge numbers of children, maimed, orphaned, traumatised for life.