GAZA CITY — In war,
nobody wants to be the last to die. In Gaza, it was the chief of the
electric company’s maintenance division and his deputy. In Israel, it
was a pair of volunteers working a security detail on their kibbutz.
The
four deaths on Tuesday, hours before an open-ended cease-fire began
between Israel and Hamas, reflected the often indiscriminate, opaque and
lethal nature of a conflict that dragged on for 50 days and...
