The U.S.-backed diplomat overseeing the truce says progress is deadlocked over the central sticking point of disarming Hamas, upon which all other issues — including Israeli withdrawals and reconstruction — hinge.
The world’s attention is captured by newer wars fought by Israel and the U.S., but not much has changed in the Gaza Strip since the cease-fire was declared in October. Daily life remains a fight for survival and living conditions are deteriorating.
Pro-Palestine groups argue the ‘Ceasefire Compliance Act’ is too modest in its effort to get Israel to stop killing Palestinians. AIPAC, meanwhile, hates it.
Many of the figures emerging as key players in the new US-backed “Board of Peace” for Gaza were central to Washington’s Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the deadly aid scheme under whose watch over 2,600 Gazans were killed.
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