Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>‘Total Failure’: Israel’s Return to War Heaped Ruin on Gaza and Did Little for Israelis</strong></p><p><em><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> ended a truce in Gaza in March, hoping to break <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a>. The move has heightened suffering for <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> but achieved few, if any, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> goals.</em> </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[gift article] </p><p>By Patrick Kingsley<br>July 28, 2025, 12:24 p.m. ET</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Then the resumption of war felt as if someone had “shut off the last source of life,” said Karam Rabah, a civil servant in central <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. “We thought we’d survived the worst, then it got even worse.”</p><p>The truce ...had brought some respite, said Mr. Rabah, who is paid by the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a>-based PA. “Children went back to some kind of learning, families returned to their homes,” he said. Then the fighting restarted, and “homes that had survived were suddenly gone, and even food became scarce,” he added. “I never thought that I would fight for a kilogram of flour for my kids.”</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/israel-gaza-hamas-all-out-war-failure.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z08.5lyF.jywsMDl8zkEI&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/i</span><span class="invisible">srael-gaza-hamas-all-out-war-failure.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z08.5lyF.jywsMDl8zkEI&smid=url-share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>