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These days showcase a very distinctive situation: the inaugural US procession of the babysitters. Their attributes range in their skills and traits, but they all have the same goal – to avert an Israeli infringement, or even demolition, of Gaza’s delicate peace agreement. After the war finished, there have been scant days without at least one of Donald Trump’s envoys on the territory. Only in the last few days featured the presence of Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, JD Vance and a political figure – all arriving to perform their duties.

The Israeli government engages them fully. In only a few short period it executed a series of operations in Gaza after the killings of a pair of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel – leading, based on accounts, in dozens of local injuries. A number of officials urged a resumption of the conflict, and the Knesset enacted a preliminary measure to annex the West Bank. The US stance was somewhere between “no” and “hell no.”

But in more than one sense, the Trump administration seems more concentrated on maintaining the existing, uneasy phase of the truce than on progressing to the next: the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip. When it comes to this, it looks the United States may have aspirations but few specific strategies.

At present, it is unclear when the proposed global oversight committee will actually assume control, and the similar is true for the proposed security force – or even the identity of its soldiers. On a recent day, Vance stated the US would not force the structure of the international contingent on Israel. But if the prime minister's cabinet persists to reject one alternative after another – as it did with the Turkish proposal lately – what follows? There is also the contrary issue: who will determine whether the forces supported by the Israelis are even willing in the mission?

The question of the timeframe it will take to demilitarize Hamas is similarly vague. “The expectation in the leadership is that the international security force is intends to now take the lead in disarming Hamas,” remarked Vance recently. “That’s going to take some time.” Trump only highlighted the lack of clarity, stating in an interview on Sunday that there is no “hard” deadline for Hamas to demilitarize. So, hypothetically, the unnamed members of this yet-to-be-formed international force could enter Gaza while the organization's militants continue to remain in control. Are they confronting a administration or a guerrilla movement? These are just a few of the issues arising. Some might ask what the verdict will be for average residents in the present situation, with Hamas carrying on to focus on its own opponents and critics.

Current events have afresh underscored the gaps of Israeli journalism on the two sides of the Gaza frontier. Every source seeks to examine each potential angle of Hamas’s breaches of the ceasefire. And, typically, the reality that Hamas has been hindering the return of the remains of slain Israeli hostages has dominated the news.

By contrast, attention of non-combatant casualties in the region stemming from Israeli strikes has obtained minimal notice – if any. Take the Israeli response actions after Sunday’s southern Gaza event, in which a pair of soldiers were lost. While Gaza’s sources reported dozens of casualties, Israeli news analysts criticised the “light reaction,” which hit just installations.

This is not new. Over the past few days, Gaza’s information bureau alleged Israel of infringing the peace with Hamas multiple times after the agreement began, killing dozens of individuals and injuring an additional many more. The claim was unimportant to most Israeli reporting – it was just absent. This applied to information that 11 members of a Palestinian household were fatally shot by Israeli troops last Friday.

The civil defence agency reported the group had been attempting to go back to their residence in the Zeitoun area of the city when the bus they were in was fired upon for supposedly crossing the “yellow line” that defines areas under Israeli army control. That boundary is not visible to the human eye and shows up only on charts and in official documents – not always available to ordinary individuals in the region.

Yet this occurrence hardly got a mention in Israeli media. A major outlet covered it shortly on its online platform, referencing an IDF official who stated that after a suspicious car was detected, troops fired alerting fire towards it, “but the transport kept to move toward the forces in a way that caused an immediate threat to them. The forces opened fire to remove the danger, in accordance with the ceasefire.” Zero casualties were reported.

Amid such narrative, it is little wonder numerous Israelis believe Hamas exclusively is to responsible for violating the truce. That perception threatens prompting appeals for a more aggressive approach in the region.

Sooner or later – maybe sooner than expected – it will no longer be adequate for all the president’s men to act as caretakers, instructing Israel what to refrain from. They will {have to|need