Gaza’s Post-War Future Is Dividing the US and Israel
People use their telephones to search for victims following an Israeli strike in Rafah in southern Gaza on Dec. 6.
Photographer: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
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Nine weeks into Israel’s war on Hamas, which has killed thousands of Palestinians and reduced entire Gaza neighborhoods to rubble, the US is sticking by its ally’s goal — destroying the Islamist group. But their ambitions for the day after are diverging.