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The Weekend Intelligence: Gaza, after the dust settles (republished)

Zanny Minton Beddoes, Greg Karlstrom, Dana Struhl, Mohamed Mustafa, Shahabil al-Zayim, Moussa Abou-Mazouk, Bassem Naeem, Nick Pelham, Leah, Yael, Yoaz Hendel, Simcha Rothman, Yair Golan, Naftali Bennett, Anwar al-Jundi Abu Subi, Tarnim, Matthew Hollingworth, Ali Shaf

Nine months into the conflict, Gaza faces near-total destruction and a humanitarian catastrophe as competing visions for post-war governance emerge, with the US and Palestinian Authority advocating for a revitalized PA while Israeli factions range from rejecting a political horizon to proposing indefinite military control. Security vacuums are already being filled by armed criminal gangs and Hamas, creating a lawless environment that threatens to collapse into permanent instability without a credible international or Israeli security plan. Experts warn that the absence of political consensus, combined with the logistical failure of aid delivery and the scale of rubble requiring forty million tons of clearance, renders a successful transition vanishingly unlikely.