The start, but not the end

After tens, if not hundreds, of lives were lost from the genocide in Gaza, a ceasefire was brokered between Israel and Hamas on Jan. 19. The last act of the Biden administration shows promise, but as an Israeli airstrike on a residential area in Gaza not even a day after indicates, this is not the end of Israeli violence for Palestinians. However, Trump’s plans to take ownership of the Gaza strip, deporting the population in the process, has only weakened the already thin ice this ceasefire stands on.