New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- Remains, fuel, and posted hours - the unglamorous math that will make or break the truce

JERUSALEM - On Day 677 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the truce's survival is being decided not in summit halls but in morgues, border lanes, and fluorescent labs where grief is logged on forms. The most hard headed test of the deal is now the accounting of the dead, a process that hinges on chain of custody, DNA swabs, and schedules that are either kept or casually broken. For families on both sides, bodies, not podium lines, determine whether this pause is real. For Washington and its allies, the temptation has been to grade themselves on announcements, yet the record shows a pattern of leverage games and shrugged off delay...