Marc Lynch

That's half a billion people, and you're a country of 10 million.

In order to have that upper hand, there is no way you can sustain that without depending on the United States.

First of all, if Israel didn't control physically much of Gaza before directly, now it controls a little over half.

So these are areas that were supposed to be buffer according to the ceasefire agreement that was negotiated by Trump.

to end the conflict, to end the war.

Of course, the war has not ended because just yesterday there were 10 people who were killed.

Fewer people are dying right now, but there's still a lot of people dying.

But Israel has taken control of the so-called buffer zone and clearly intends to keep it.

And Netanyahu has been saying so.

He actually is taking credit that now we have more than half of Gaza leveling it, shooting anyone who comes near it.

Inside Gaza, it's a disaster because you can see that what we've witnessed during the war is still ongoing in terms of the not enough aid is going in.

Medical facilities are still in huge trouble.

They haven't been repaired.

Many of them are still not operational.

People are still obviously living in tents or homeless, and the structures are destroyed or damaged.

They've come up with this peace board that was supposed to be not only ambitious toward resolving the Gaza situation, but even replacing the UN Security Council at some point.

It certainly hasn't done anything.

And the worst part of it is that...

We know nobody is looking at it.

Well, they're obviously still consolidating control.