Dana El Kurd
The Trump administration recently declared that Phase 1 of the cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel was over and that the work of Phase 2 would begin. This came as a surprise to Palestinians, and to many observers of the region, given that none of the 20 points in the plan laid out at the beginning of the cease-fire had been realized on the ground—aside from the return of Israeli hostages.
For instance, Israel has allowed some aid in—but not at the levels required to offset hunger and malnutrition or to sustain reconstruction. Violence has not ended either; since the cease-fire was announced last October, more than 480 Palestinians have been killed, including at least 100 children, and thousands more injured in Israeli attacks. Most recently, three journalists were killed in what a relief group described as a targeted attack.
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