We're now in the second week of a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, one still marked by deadly violence.

Earlier this week, a video of Hamas publicly executing eight Palestinian men,

accusing them of working with Israel during the war, was circulating online.

And on Friday, Israeli forces killed 11 members of a Palestinian family.

Gaza's civil defense authorities said the family, like many others, were inspecting the ruins of

their home.

Israeli forces fired a tank round at their minibus.

The Israeli military said that the family was behind the yellow line where its troops are

positioned.

That's NPR's Jane Arraf reporting on Weekend Edition this morning.

She's covered the Middle East for 30 years.

It's sort of bookended by my first experience covering the Middle East, which was in the

90s when I came here as a Reuters reporter.

And it was a time when Jordan was secretly discussing a peace deal with Israel, when the Palestinians were discussing possible peace with Israel.

At nearly every juncture since then, where peace was discussed or war flared up again, Jane was somewhere in the region, reporting for major outlets like CNN, the New York Times, Al Jazeera English,

and for several years for NPR on stories like these.

They included two fighters being buried, plus an 11-year-old boy and a hospital orderly.

For millions of Syrians, this is a new beginning.

Long dreamed of during the years of

killings and arrests and repression. We've just landed in Gaza, not very far into Gaza,

just a few hundred feet beyond the fence. It's part of the buffer zone that Israel has created.

There is not another person in sight here. And now, a little more than a week

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