Repairs to Gaza’s badly damaged electricity, water, sewage and communications systems — as well as its torn up roads — are to begin during phase one. So is the planning process for rebuilding homes decimated by the war. All of the repairs and planning are being overseen by the U.N. and ceasefire mediators Egypt and Qatar.

Israel on Wednesday threatened to launch a new war on Hamas that would lead to the implementation of US President Donald Trump's plan to displace all Palestinians from the territory