Hostage deal imminent, but what’s next for Gaza?
Smoke rises from a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike at the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday. In a survey of the population in Gaza, 92% of respondents said they had been displaced by the war, some 25% were living in formal or informal tent shelters with only 12% reported to be living in an undamaged home. Photo: Eyad BABA / AFP via Getty Images
They are calling it the Trump Effect. Just last weekend President elect Donald Trump threatened "hell" for Gaza if the Hamas -held Israeli hostages were not released before his inauguration.
That inauguration is now just six days away. Expectations in the media and on the street in Israel is reaching fever pitch that a deal or truce of some kind is imminent, and that most, if not all the remaining hostages believed to be alive will be soon freed.
