The Sixty-Five Day War. So far

And tomorrow it will be the Sixty-Six Day War. Despite all the claimed reports that Washington has told Tel Avv it wants the war in Gaza wrapped up and finished by the end of this year, it looks far more likely that it will still be going on well in to 2024. How will the Palestinian civilians be able to cope with an extended war when they are already being shunted into a corner of southern Gaza to escape the constant airstrikes and tank shellings? Hamas is putting up fierce resistance, so the chances of the fighting ending with total elimination of the terrorist-designated organisation or, alternatively, mass surrender, seems remote. So Tel Aviv, backed by an increasingly worried United States, will keep going, and that means beyond-belief suffering for the Palestinian people. They have never had their own nation, their own sovereignty, their own strong and secure borders. What's more they have had the gravest misfortune of being ruled by the Hamas terror oganisation since June 2007 which has led to this appalling war. What hope is there for them?