The cease fire broke down and rockets fired.
[On Saturday, police officials in western Nepal said that at least 38 people, most of them Maoists, had been killed after the rebels attacked a police post on Friday.] With the cease-fire broken, the brief run of optimism is over for this desperately poor Himalayan kingdom of 25 million people.
They are not strictly speaking peacekeepers, since they have neither the mandate nor the means to keep the peace if a cease-fire breaks down.
The cease-fire broke down when Israeli forces launched major air and ground attacks in early November; six Hamas operatives were reported killed.
When a fragile cease-fire breaks down, Ms. Paternostro balks at traveling to the demilitarized zone where rebel leaders and government representatives will hold a fateful summit conference.
The turn-words-into-deeds theme was also struck by the Bush administration, whose efforts to arrange a cease-fire broke down over the weekend with the withdrawal of its Middle East envoy, Anthony C. Zinni, a retired Marine general.
The military leaders refused, but somehow, at several points along the trenches, a surreal cease-fire broke out anyway.
The planned three-day cease-fire broke down after 90 minutes Friday morning when two Israeli soldiers were killed and one was apparently abducted.
But if the cease-fire breaks down, fails to be renewed, or continues to be violated, it is inevitable that innocent Israeli kids will die.
Fighting in Kachin, located near Myanmar's northern border with China, has continued since a 17-year cease-fire broke down in June 2011, displacing some 100,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Dershowitz of course fails to mention that Israel has never ended it's occupation of Gaza, and itself broke internation law when it broke the cease fire (contrary to conventional wisdom that Hamas broke the cease fire).
