A ceasefire has been declared in Gaza - and chances are that the blockade on Gaza will also be eased as part of this ceasefire.

Now that this is over, better turn our attention to the civil war in Syria where many more people are dying.

Hopefully this will be a short lived conflict and nothing in comparison of the decades of oppression that the Palestinians have endured, but at the moment, it is far more bloody, far more brutal.

Small steps are slowly being taken where it seems tht eventually the Syrian regime will eventually be toppled. But this does not mean that after that there will be paradise there as some of the opposition groups have also shown quite an apetite for violence and brutality that has many locals on the ground worried.