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Thhese days showcase a quite unusual situation: the pioneering US parade of the overseers. Their qualifications differ in their expertise and attributes, but they all have the same objective – to prevent an Israeli violation, or even destruction, of Gaza’s delicate truce. After the hostilities finished, there have been few occasions without at least one of the former president's representatives on the territory. Just in the last few days featured the arrival of Jared Kushner, a businessman, JD Vance and Marco Rubio – all arriving to execute their roles.

Israel occupies their time. In only a few short period it initiated a series of attacks in the region after the loss of two Israeli military personnel – resulting, based on accounts, in dozens of local casualties. Multiple ministers urged a restart of the fighting, and the Israeli parliament passed a initial measure to annex the occupied territories. The American reaction was somehow ranging from “no” and “hell no.”

But in several ways, the US leadership seems more concentrated on preserving the current, uneasy period of the peace than on progressing to the next: the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip. Concerning that, it looks the US may have aspirations but little specific strategies.

At present, it is uncertain at what point the planned international oversight committee will effectively take power, and the same applies to the proposed security force – or even the makeup of its personnel. On Tuesday, Vance said the United States would not impose the composition of the international unit on the Israeli government. But if the prime minister's administration persists to dismiss multiple options – as it acted with the Ankara's offer recently – what happens then? There is also the reverse issue: who will establish whether the troops supported by the Israelis are even interested in the task?

The question of how long it will need to demilitarize the militant group is similarly unclear. “Our hope in the government is that the global peacekeeping unit is going to now assume responsibility in demilitarizing Hamas,” stated Vance recently. “That’s will require some time.” Trump only highlighted the uncertainty, stating in an interview a few days ago that there is no “hard” schedule for the group to disarm. So, hypothetically, the unidentified participants of this yet-to-be-formed global force could arrive in Gaza while the organization's fighters still remain in control. Would they be confronting a governing body or a guerrilla movement? These represent only some of the concerns surfacing. Some might ask what the verdict will be for everyday Palestinians under current conditions, with the group continuing to attack its own opponents and opposition.

Latest developments have once again highlighted the blind spots of local journalism on each side of the Gaza boundary. Each publication attempts to scrutinize each potential perspective of Hamas’s violations of the ceasefire. And, usually, the situation that the organization has been hindering the repatriation of the remains of killed Israeli hostages has dominated the headlines.

By contrast, attention of non-combatant casualties in Gaza caused by Israeli operations has received little notice – if at all. Take the Israeli counter strikes following Sunday’s southern Gaza occurrence, in which a pair of military personnel were fatally wounded. While local sources reported 44 fatalities, Israeli media commentators complained about the “moderate reaction,” which focused on solely installations.

This is typical. During the recent weekend, Gaza’s information bureau charged Israel of violating the peace with the group multiple times after the ceasefire began, resulting in the loss of dozens of individuals and injuring an additional 143. The allegation seemed irrelevant to the majority of Israeli news programmes – it was merely absent. This applied to information that eleven individuals of a Palestinian family were fatally shot by Israeli soldiers recently.

The civil defence agency said the group had been attempting to go back to their dwelling in the Zeitoun district of the city when the vehicle they were in was fired upon for allegedly going over the “demarcation line” that demarcates zones under Israeli military authority. That limit is not visible to the ordinary view and shows up just on charts and in official papers – not always obtainable to ordinary individuals in the area.

Yet that event hardly got a note in Israeli media. One source mentioned it in passing on its website, citing an Israeli military representative who said that after a questionable transport was spotted, forces shot alerting fire towards it, “but the car kept to advance on the soldiers in a manner that posed an imminent risk to them. The troops engaged to neutralize the danger, in line with the truce.” No injuries were stated.

Amid such framing, it is little wonder many Israeli citizens believe Hamas exclusively is to at fault for infringing the peace. This view could lead to fuelling demands for a stronger approach in the region.

Eventually – possibly sooner than expected – it will no longer be adequate for US envoys to take on the role of caretakers, telling Israel what to avoid. They will {have to|need