A neighbour in Gaza, suffering from Alzheimer's, has been displaced four times during the war and no longer remembers the events of October 7 or how it began.
We've won every time – what's new about this one?
His fading mind holds the clearest thought of all: that every so-called victory ends in the same destruction, the same slogans, the same silence.
Gaza today stands on the edge of exhaustion, streets once filled with life have become corridors of dust.
Humanitarian concern is necessary, but without political honesty, it becomes another ritual that sustains the cycle.
The vision of the Strip governed by civilians rather than militants is not naïve; it is the minimum condition for recovery.
Author's summary: Gaza suffers from war and destruction.