Hamas reportedly reasserts control in Gaza as Iran war shifts international focus, according to analysts raising serious doubts about postwar planning.

Meanwhile, more than 20,000 patients await evacuation as the Rafah crossing is set to partially reopen on Wednesday.

The plane carrying about 150 Palestinians from Gaza came as a surprise to everyone on the ground when it landed in South Africa in November. It wasn’t the only one. Since May, at least three flights filled with Gaza residents who’d signed up to leave the war-torn enclave have landed in Indonesia and South Africa.

Five months ago, President Trump declared ceasefire in Gaza, having negotiated a deal that includes phased Israeli withdrawal from the territory and Hamas disarmament. But that was before the U.S. and Israel launched a war in Iran taking the Trump administration’s attention away from the Palestinian territory.

Donald Trump's Board of Peace - a peacebuilding project to underline his Nobel Prize credentials - has gone silent amid his Iran war and continued fighting in Gaza consumes the MIddle East.

Palestinians in Gaza are reacting to a possible shift in the world's attention away from the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to a new regional conflict with Iran.

Burning scraps of plastic and cardboard in a large tin can outside his family's tent in a southern Gaza graveyard, Raed Abu Ouda prepares a meal for his children, remembering a time when they didn't have to live this way.

Rare US-Hamas talks come as the war on Iran strains the battered Gaza ‘ceasefire’ and post-war plans.