The End of Gaza
AI-generated overview
The article assesses the year after the October 2025 Gaza cease-fire, arguing that key commitments on aid, basic services, Palestinian governance, Israeli withdrawal, and reconstruction remain largely unfulfilled. It reports continuing Israeli strikes, widespread displacement, restricted aid, and destruction of civilian infrastructure. Hamas’s resistance to disarmament contributed to delays, but the article places particular responsibility on Netanyahu’s government for rejecting a proposed sequence linking disarmament with Israeli withdrawal. It also criticizes the Trump administration for uneven enforcement and deference to Israel. The author argues that the impasse may serve Israeli hard-liners’ goal of making Gaza uninhabitable, while warning of renewed violence and damage to prospects for a two-state solution.
What’s discussed
- The article says the October 2025 cease-fire plan freed the remaining Israeli hostages and formally ended hostilities.
- Jared Kushner said in January that restoration of core services and infrastructure would begin within 100 days; nine months later, the article reports that reconstruction and restoration had not begun.
- The article reports that more than 90 percent of Gaza’s inhabitants are internally displaced and that Israel controls around 65 percent of the territory, up from just over half after the cease-fire.
- The article reports that Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians since the cease-fire was declared, including about 300 children in the past year.
- The article states that Israel was allowing only a fraction of the 600 daily aid truckloads stipulated in the cease-fire deal.
- The article reports that 223,000 tons of explosives were dropped on Gaza, more than 74,000 Palestinians were killed, 92 percent of housing stock and 95 percent of farmland were wiped out, all 12 universities were destroyed, and nearly half of 36 hospitals were lost.
- In July, Trump announced a breakthrough on the second phase of the Gaza plan, and Hamas and the Board of Peace reached a disarmament arrangement intended to proceed in parallel with an Israeli withdrawal.
- Netanyahu rejected the proposed sequence, insisting Hamas be fully disarmed before Israeli forces withdrew.
- The article says the Palestinian governing committee was in Cairo and unable to enter Gaza while the process remained stalled.
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