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We Gazans are risking our lives to rid ourselves of Hamas’s oppression. This may be our only chance.

Rare demonstrations against Hamas, which has long repressed dissent, came amid widespread despair after Israel resumed the war in Gaza following a two-month ceasefire.

“Tonight, we returned to fighting in Gaza.” That’s what Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said after Israel launched air strikes in the early hours of Tuesday, effectively breaking a two-month cease-fire.

Hamas represents an “existential risk to the very existence of the Palestinian people” a leading Gazan-American writer and advocate for co-existence with Israel has warned.

The United States has rejected a $53 billion Arab reconstruction plan for Gaza set out as an alternative to President Donald Trump's proposal to take over the strip and remove its Palestinian inhabitants to create a "Gaza Riviera".

The highly anticipated Egypt-drafted plan endorsed by Arab powers as a counterproposal to President Donald Trump's calls for the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip outlines a new pathway to peace, reconstruction and eventual Palestinian statehood that excludes Hamas from power.

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As Israel mourns the return of four hostage bodies, pressure mounts ahead of negotiations for the next stage of the deal. Meanwhile, Donald Trump lays out his vision for Gaza in a bizarre, AI-generated video. At the same time, new IDF investigations into October 7th reveal years of misreading Hamas, leaving southern Israel dangerously exposed.

The US president’s video depicting a future Gaza under American authority was widely shared on Arabic and Hebrew social media, with many Palestinian users criticizing it.