The Truce

It’s the word that, fortunately, is on everyone’s lips today, but what is its origin?

Derived from “trewwa,” meaning a pact, but in common usage also a contract. Of Germanic origin, specifically Lombard, the term was born precisely to be linked, conceptually attached, to the suspension of hostilities, albeit temporarily. It is worth remembering that this was the medieval period and that Lombard was not written, so we enter the realm of hypotheses, also starting from their Latinization.

Truce, cessation of hostilities, war. Three terms, unfortunately still very current, feeding off one another, tangled in a loop that involves blood, hope, and waiting. Because a truce is nothing more than a wait for peace, a suspended time where hope remains frozen, temporary and anxious.

Today’s truce between Palestine and Israel instead includes a peace plan that carries several points, made public by the White House and Donald Trump, to end the two-year war in Gaza, free the hostages held by Hamas, and define not only the near but also the broader future of the Palestinian enclave.

Israeli hostages and about two thousand Palestinian detainees will be released, IDF troops are ready to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement in Sharm el Sheikh. But this is only a first phase, which consolidates the truce and will trigger the next phase of Trump’s plan. This includes the creation of an international body, the Board of Peace, designed to oversee Gaza’s post-war administration. The agreement is in place, even if the path to achieving a complete silence of arms still seems not entirely predictable. The coming days will be decisive for the true outbreak of peace.

Instacult by Mauro Lama