Ceasefire: Great, Now When Do We Fund Gaza's Rebuilding?
While Al Jazeera notes the 'tens of thousands' rallying for a ceasefire, the real story often gets buried under the headline's polite framing. These 'ceasefires' rarely address the root causes of displacement, blockade, or the systematic degradation of infrastructure. We've seen this play out for decades: short-term cessation of hostilities followed by quiet starvation and reconstruction efforts
stifled by political maneuvering. Remember the 2014 Gaza conflict? A 'ceasefire' led to a decade of broken promises on rebuilding, with 80% of Gaza's population still reliant on humanitarian aid before the current devastation. The current agreement, if it holds, will still leave a territory in ruins, its people facing blockades imposed by both Egypt and Israel. One might wonder how many cycles of
'relief' and 'scepticism' it takes before the world demands real accountability, beyond momentary pauses.