as in armistice
a temporary stopping of fighting
both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve
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Seven labor unions totaling millions of members sent a letter Tuesday to the White House demanding a truce in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop supplying weapons to Israel.
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John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
Sons killed in airstrike Hamas' 1988 founding charter called for the destruction of Israel, although Hamas leaders have at times offered a long-term truce with Israel in return for a viable Palestinian state on all Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.
—Samia Nakhoul and Stephen Farrell, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
Belarus was also accused of violating the Olympic truce by allowing Russia to use its territory for military purposes.
—Anna Gordon, TIME, 27 July 2024
The history of the Olympic truce goes back much further than the 1990s, all the way to the Games’ invention.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
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John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
Sons killed in airstrike Hamas' 1988 founding charter called for the destruction of Israel, although Hamas leaders have at times offered a long-term truce with Israel in return for a viable Palestinian state on all Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.
—Samia Nakhoul and Stephen Farrell, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
Belarus was also accused of violating the Olympic truce by allowing Russia to use its territory for military purposes.
—Anna Gordon, TIME, 27 July 2024
The history of the Olympic truce goes back much further than the 1990s, all the way to the Games’ invention.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
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