It’s graduation season in Gaza

“I’m exhausted and depressed,” my doctor friend Mohannad texted from his tent in Gaza last week.

Just a few days after the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas came into force on October 10, 2025, Mohannad wrote at that time, “I am deeply depressed.” I tried FaceTime with him. He was too tired to answer.

This was finally the first phase of the plan “Bring peace to Gaza”Including, in the words of Australia’s foreign minister, “the unimpeded flow of aid”.