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From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily Israel has been fighting Hamas in Gaza for almost a year, but despite catastrophic losses, Hamas seems no closer to declaring defeat.
And despite considerable military gains, Israel seems no closer to declaring victory.
Today my colleague Patrick Kingsley on why the war in Gaza is still going and what it would take to end it its Wednesday, August 28.
So Patrick, we wanted to hear from you in Israel today because were coming up nearly on a year since October 7, and it really feels like every week you write at least one story about the ceasefire negotiations.
Some weeks it looks like progress toward a ceasefire deal, other weeks, no progress.
Meanwhile, the threat of a wider war in the Middle east is deepening.
Just this weekend there was a huge exchange of rocket fire in Israel's northern border with Lebanon.
You know, that doesn't seem likely to end while the war in Gaza is still going.
So we all felt like it was really time to come to you and ask a basic question, which is, why can't they agree to a ceasefire?
And perhaps more fundamentally, why is this war in Gaza still going on?
So these are very good questions.
Both the questions come down to two men, essentially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Yahya Sinwar of Hamas.
And to understand why they have such fundamentally mutually exclusive positions on the war, we have to start with the ceasefire, which is the most basic building block for stopping the war.
And the two leaders have a fundamental disagreement here.