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Thhese times exhibit a very unusual situation: the inaugural US march of the babysitters. They vary in their expertise and traits, but they all have the same objective – to stop an Israeli violation, or even devastation, of the delicate truce. Since the conflict concluded, there have been rare days without at least one of the former president's delegates on the scene. Only this past week featured the likes of a senior advisor, a businessman, a senator and Marco Rubio – all coming to perform their duties.

Israel occupies their time. In just a few short period it executed a series of operations in the region after the deaths of a pair of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel – resulting, based on accounts, in many of local fatalities. Multiple ministers urged a renewal of the fighting, and the Knesset approved a preliminary resolution to incorporate the occupied territories. The US response was somewhere ranging from “no” and “hell no.”

Yet in several ways, the US leadership appears more focused on upholding the existing, tense phase of the peace than on moving to the subsequent: the rebuilding of Gaza. When it comes to that, it seems the United States may have ambitions but little concrete proposals.

For now, it remains unclear when the proposed international administrative entity will actually begin operating, and the same goes for the appointed security force – or even the makeup of its soldiers. On a recent day, Vance declared the US would not dictate the structure of the foreign contingent on Israel. But if Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet continues to refuse multiple options – as it did with the Ankara's proposal recently – what follows? There is also the contrary point: who will determine whether the forces supported by Israel are even willing in the mission?

The issue of the duration it will require to demilitarize the militant group is similarly ambiguous. “Our hope in the administration is that the global peacekeeping unit is intends to at this point assume responsibility in disarming the organization,” said Vance lately. “It’s will require a while.” Trump further emphasized the uncertainty, declaring in an interview a few days ago that there is no “fixed” timeline for the group to lay down arms. So, theoretically, the unnamed participants of this still unformed international force could enter the territory while the organization's members continue to wield influence. Would they be confronting a governing body or a guerrilla movement? These are just a few of the questions arising. Others might ask what the verdict will be for ordinary civilians as things stand, with the group persisting to focus on its own opponents and critics.

Recent developments have once again underscored the omissions of local journalism on each side of the Gazan boundary. Every source seeks to examine each potential aspect of the group's violations of the ceasefire. And, usually, the fact that the organization has been stalling the repatriation of the bodies of killed Israeli hostages has taken over the news.

By contrast, reporting of civilian fatalities in Gaza caused by Israeli strikes has received minimal focus – or none. Take the Israeli retaliatory strikes after Sunday’s southern Gaza incident, in which two military personnel were fatally wounded. While Gaza’s authorities claimed 44 casualties, Israeli media pundits questioned the “light answer,” which hit just infrastructure.

That is not new. During the recent weekend, the media office alleged Israel of infringing the ceasefire with Hamas 47 times since the agreement began, causing the death of 38 Palestinians and harming an additional 143. The claim was insignificant to most Israeli reporting – it was just missing. This applied to information that 11 members of a local family were lost their lives by Israeli troops a few days ago.

The rescue organization said the family had been trying to go back to their dwelling in the Zeitoun area of the city when the vehicle they were in was targeted for supposedly passing the “boundary” that demarcates zones under Israeli military authority. This yellow line is unseen to the naked eye and shows up just on maps and in official documents – sometimes not available to average people in the territory.

Yet that event hardly got a mention in Israeli news outlets. A major outlet covered it shortly on its digital site, quoting an Israeli military official who stated that after a suspicious transport was detected, troops discharged cautionary rounds towards it, “but the transport continued to approach the soldiers in a way that created an imminent danger to them. The forces engaged to eliminate the risk, in line with the truce.” Zero fatalities were claimed.

With this framing, it is no surprise a lot of Israeli citizens feel Hamas exclusively is to responsible for breaking the truce. This view could lead to prompting calls for a tougher stance in the region.

At some point – possibly sooner than expected – it will no longer be enough for all the president’s men to act as caretakers, telling the Israeli government what to refrain from. They will {have to|need