War-ravaged Gaza is frozen in misery, a year into Trump’s peace plan

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A year into Trump’s peace plan, Netanyahu stands in the way of rebuilding

Conditions in Gaza remain bleak, and reconstruction blocked, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights for reelection three years after the Oct. 7 attack.

October 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDTToday at 5:00 a.m. EDT

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*A Palestinian man works amid the rubble of a building damaged during the war, overlooking a makeshift tent camp in Gaza. (Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)*

By Gerry Shih

,

John Hudson

,

Lior Soroka

and

Hassan Esdodi

JERUSALEM — Hundreds of thousands of people are still squatting in tattered tents, beset by rodents and infectious disease. Sewage is overflowing. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Most homes, schools and mosques remain part of a sea of rubble.

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