It’s devastatingly clear that there will be no seat at the table for the youth of Gaza to take part in the negotiations over “Gaza’s future” currently being held by U.S. and Israeli officials.

As U.S. and Israeli officials discuss whether to move forward with the second phase of the ceasefire and draw Gaza’s fate and future on paper — or whether to announce the collapse of the talks and a return to war amid daily violations of the truce — they are not in conversation with youth like my brother Mohammed and me: We embody a future that is being deliberately ignored.

There is no engagement with the youth who studied under bombardment, no voice for the high school students whose determination defied the arrogance of war.

Here in Gaza, where schools have been turned into piles of rubble, you

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