Sentence examples for it a ceasefire from inspiring English sources

"They are calling it a ceasefire, but they are continuing to blockade 24m people while intensifying their bombing campaign," a frustrated aid official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Having sharply escalated its attacks in recent months, on August 13th it announced a ceasefire, saying it was giving AK until September 20th to meet its demands.

Not only does it require a ceasefire, but it now also requires a "reformed" Palestinian Authority (PA) to police that ceasefire.

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said that Russia had not kept the commitment it made when it agreed a ceasefire over Syria last month.

"It needs a ceasefire and it means getting back to the negotiating table in Geneva," he said.

But attempts to wean it off violence after it called a ceasefire in 2006 failed, and the group planted a bomb which killed two people at Madrid's Barajas airport.

But since it declared a ceasefire a year ago the group has killed one Israeli, according to the Israeli government's own figures.

In January it signed a ceasefire with the Shan State Army-North, but has already breached it.On the back of its formal military role, the army has also built up a suffocating economic grip on the region.

"It is a ceasefire in name only," he said.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas official, said the Egyptian government had not consulted it about a ceasefire.

It is "a ceasefire in name only", declares Philip Breedlove, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe.