WHAT NEXT FOR THE CONFLICT?

MORE than two million Gazans face a grim future, with illness pervading the Strip, a vital need for water and food and many homes reduced to rubble.

- CHRIS HUGHES

The horrors that lie beneath the rubble in terms of those 19,000 still missing could take the Palestinian death toll far beyond the 46,000 estimated by Gaza's medical officials.

Thousands of surviving kids will need years of treatment to overcome the trauma of what they have suffered and witnessed in 15 months of war.

But they have survived and for now the gunfire and explosions have stopped, offering respite as Phase One of the ceasefire deal gets under way.