Sally Ibrahim

After a closely contested race, al-Hayya defeated Khaled Meshaal by one vote, highlighting Hamas's internal competition and resilience despite Israel's war.

"Israel is reducing the areas where Palestinians can live through continuous bombing and evacuation orders, gradually concentrating civilians into zones..."

The Shabana family has been completely wiped from Gaza's civil registry, one of thousands of Palestinian families to have suffered the same fate by Israel.

"People are tired of political stagnation. We need a legislative council that exercises oversight and a leadership with a renewed public mandate."

"Every morning begins the same way. Yahya wakes with a fever, crying as he struggles to resist scratching the blisters covering his face, chest and limbs."

The Ma'azi Jaba' community lies in Area C of the occupied West Bank, which, under the 1995 Oslo II Accord signed between Israel and the Palestine.

Hazem Qassem, Hamas's spokesperson, said the announcement was a political concession to remove any Israeli pretext for delaying a "ceasefire".

Israel's genocide has fundamentally reshaped Gaza, with neighbourhoods that once defined its cities now buried under rubble.

Under the new arrangements, travellers undergo an additional Israeli security inspection before being allowed to continue into the besieged enclave.