Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in the Al Shejaeiya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City yesterday. Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA Our politics team's behind-the-scenes take on events of the day. Every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday when the Dáil sits Good morning. Hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza are tentatively growing and the story makes our front page lead this morning, even as health authorities there reported that the death toll had passed 57,000. Sally Hayden writes from Jerusalem that Hamas was examining new ceasefire offers received from mediators Egypt and Qatar, but repeated that it wants an end...