Palestinian children leap into the air while playing on a trampoline in northern Gaza's militarized orange zone of Beit Lahia, on May 31.Anas Baba/NPR hide caption GAZA CITY, Gaza, and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On a small rickety table, under a tent made of worn-out tarps, four friends meet for a game of cards.One of the older men gripes to the others: "Life is so boring." Like most in Gaza, the group of men are unemployed with no hope on the horizon as President Trump's peace plan, which calls for Israeli withdrawal, new governance in Gaza and Hamas' disarmament, stalls nine months after the ceasefire was brokered.
Members of the al-Hattab family take turns filling water jugs at their ruined house where they shelter in al-Shujaiya, Gaza Strip.The al-Hattabs are among the few Palestinians still living inside Israel's expanding zone of control.
Anas Baba/NPR hide caption Still, the men meet almost every afternoon, about 400 yards from their homes in the neighborhood of al-Shujaiya in eastern Gaza City.But each day, as the sun begins to set, the men have nowhere else to seek shelter and no choice but to return to their bombed-out homes where they hunker down for the night.
Subhi Shurabasi, a 60-year-old grandfather, shelters with his sons, their wives and his grandchildren inside the ruins of their destroyed home in al-Shujaiya, on May 31.Anas Baba/NPR hide caption "After sunset we put our hand on our heart and just pray," Abu Ahmed Humeid says.
"No one dares go outside."That's because Israeli forces have been pushing deeper into Gaza in recent months.At the st...