Hamas dissolved its government in Gaza to remove any obstacle to reconstruction, but little has changed for ordinary Palestinians in the Strip — because Israel ultimately controls whether the nightmare it has inflicted on them will ever end.

Israel’s conditioning of its withdrawal from southern Lebanon on the disarmament of Hezbollah mirrors its strategy in Gaza: insist on terms that are impossible to implement to justify its constant state of war.

I have worked as a journalist in Gaza for nearly a decade, and I believe the Committee to Protect Journalists’ decision to remove the names of Palestinians killed while reporting from its records is yet another attempt to silence Gaza. It will fail.

For decades, the General Secondary Education Examination, or “Tawjihi,” was one of Gaza’s most significant milestones. But now, for the third year, students are taking their exams with no classrooms, no reliable electricity, and barely enough food.

This Father’s Day, Miramar Abusaleem reclaims her father’s memory — a Gaza farmer killed by an Israeli airstrike, and namesake of The Sameer Project — challenging how Palestinian men disappear from media coverage of the genocide.

Before the genocide, Gaza’s residents carried their TVs into the streets to watch the World Cup with their neighbors. Today, following a match requires electricity that many don’t have, and money that most people can’t afford.

Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may not survive.

Israeli soldiers shot three-year-old Rayyan Abu al-Ajeen in his father’s arms and mocked his father’s pleas as he cried for his dying son. The father says they were in the part of Gaza designated as “safe” for civilians during the “ceasefire.”

In Gaza, a ‘ceasefire’ means Israel can kill more than a dozen people in under 24 hours — and over 1,000 people since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025 — while the world remains silent.

With 96 percent of Gaza’s farmland destroyed, farmers are returning to fields buried in rubble and unexploded ordnance, but Israel’s blockade is making recovery nearly impossible.