Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 23. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

Under the shade of a tree in the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip , a group of friends meet from time to time to talk and forget for a little while the difficult situation we face. This weekend, three of us were sitting together under the tree in the hot and dusty weather when Abd Alhadi Mslam, another friend, rode up on his bicycle.

“Did you hear? Netanyahu decided to take full control of Gaza and then let some Arab forces administer it and the Palestinian Authority has no role,” he said.

He was referring to Friday’s decision by the security cabinet

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