New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Ceasefire that leaks, convoys that crawl, a border that decides who breathes

GAZA - Two years after the morning that reset the region's clocks, the conflict is no longer a rolling news story so much as the scaffolding of daily life. In Gaza, families navigate streets crushed to the width of a doorway. On Israel's southern border, the hum of generators and the clack of construction tools mix with memorial services as kibbutz communities debate a return. Diplomats cycle between capital cities promising frameworks, timelines and guarantees that rarely survive a week of new facts on the ground. What endures is a ledger, of lives, losses, and obligations, that both sides carry into every conversation about what comes nex...