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With a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in effect, many questions about the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip remain. It may take decades, not years, to rebuild Gaza due to the massive destruction, an expert from the Brookings Institute told ABC News. Under the ceasefire agreement, the Gaza Strip is set to be redeveloped for the Palestinian people. Jaco Cilliers, an official from United Nations Development Programme, said at a press conference on Tuesday that it had already cleared some 81,000 tons of rubble from the Gaza Strip and was continuing to do so. However, it is unclear when reconstruction will begin and who will finance the effort, the Brookings Institute expert, Hady Amr, told ABC News. Amr, the former U.S. representative for Palestinian affairs from 2022 until 2025, said: “I don’t think there’s any modern comparison to what’s going to need to happen in the Gaza Strip right now. The level of destruction and devastation is just absolutely immense. “Imagine not…

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Or so he’d like you to believe. Trump’s bullsh*t reached unprecedented heights last week with his theatrical ‘Mid-East Peace Deal’ in Egypt, which was really just a declaration of intent signed by the leaders of parties other than Israel and Hamas, and in which they expressed their desire to see the conflict ended. That’s it. Hamas has released all remaining Israeli hostages, while Israel has released a couple thousands Palestinian ones. But the fundamentally barbaric and illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands continues. In the meantime, Trump’s also been publicly bragging in Israel’s Knesset (!) about Israeli money buying US foreign policy… Far from being ‘resolved’, Israel’s ‘Palestinian problem’ is likely being shifted into the next phase: bloody civil war instigated by ‘militias’ funded and/or fully supported by the US and Israel. Running Time: 02:02:24 Download: MP3 — 112 MB

Apple’s ability to pull off its long-promised overhaul of Siri is being questioned, with a report claiming the digital assistant isn’t working as well as it should for a future iOS 26 update.Siri’s animation on an iPhoneThe iOS 18 introduction of Apple Intelligence was supposed to also bring in some much-needed upgrades to Siri. However, it seems that Apple’s Siri problems may still persist long into the lifecycle of iOS 26.According to sources of Mark Gurman in Sunday’s “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg, testers of iOS 26.4 are already feeling uneasy about Siri. There are apparently “concerns” from the testers over the digital assistant’s performance. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Concerns about inflation and tariffs have lowered voter confidence in President Trump.

The technology, called Distributed Acoustic Sensing, transforms cables into continuous underwater microphones that can pinpoint whale locations and track their movements.