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In the 2009 survey by Northern Ireland Life and Times, 47 of Northern Irish Catholics supported Northern Ireland remaining a part of the United Kingdom, either by direct rule (8 ) or devolved government (39 ).

Of course, like previous ceasefires, any truce is likely to be temporary, inevitably undermined by the forces that perpetuate Israel s armed conflict with Hamas.

Those efforts have sometimes been strained by a lack of adequate international financing for relief efforts, at other times by adverse weather or Darfur's weak infrastructure, and often by security failures resulting from armed groups' lack of commitment to the ceasefire.