Palestinian children carrying food through the rubble of the Nuseirat refugee camp, destroyed by Israel, in central Gaza on March 3, 2025. (Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP)
Badar Salem is a Palestinian writer, editor, and translator. In 2025, she won the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press for “On the Normalization of Sumud in Gaza,” a critique of how Palestinian suffering gets repackaged as resilience.Seven months after the October 2025 cease-fire, Gaza still lies in ruins. The death toll has climbed past 75,000, with Israeli violence continuing in new forms. What once was open warfare has morphed into a struggle over governance, resources, and the very shape of the future. In this landscape, reconstruction has become the central battleground.In January, the U.S. Trump administration announced the Board of Peace and the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a body of Palestinian technocrats tasked with restoring services and preparing large-scale rebuilding.On paper, the plan...
Badar Salem is a Palestinian writer, editor, and translator. In 2025, she won the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press for “On the Normalization of Sumud in Gaza,” a critique of how Palestinian suffering gets repackaged as resilience.Seven months after the October 2025 cease-fire, Gaza still lies in ruins. The death toll has climbed past 75,000, with Israeli violence continuing in new forms. What once was open warfare has morphed into a struggle over governance, resources, and the very shape of the future. In this landscape, reconstruction has become the central battleground.In January, the U.S. Trump administration announced the Board of Peace and the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a body of Palestinian technocrats tasked with restoring services and preparing large-scale rebuilding.On paper, the...
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