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‘Total Failure’: Israel’s Return to War Heaped Ruin on Gaza and Did Little for Israelis

#Israel ended a truce in Gaza in March, hoping to break #Hamas. The move has heightened suffering for #Palestinians but achieved few, if any, #Israeli goals.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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By Patrick Kingsley
July 28, 2025, 12:24 p.m. ET

Then the resumption of war felt as if someone had “shut off the last source of life,” said Karam Rabah, a civil servant in central #Gaza. “We thought we’d survived the worst, then it got even worse.”

The truce ...had brought some respite, said Mr. Rabah, who is paid by the #WestBank-based PA. “Children went back to some kind of learning, families returned to their homes,” he said. Then the fighting restarted, and “homes that had survived were suddenly gone, and even food became scarce,” he added. “I never thought that I would fight for a kilogram of flour for my kids.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/israel-gaza-hamas-all-out-war-failure.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.Z08.5lyF.jywsMDl8zkEI

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