CIVICUS discusses the future of Gaza with Karam Dana, interdisciplinary social scientist and professor at the University of Washington Bothell. His award-winning book, To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States, examines changing global discourse on Palestine.
A much-breached ceasefire began in October 2025, and on 11 January Hamas announced it would dissolve its Gaza government once a technocratic leadership takes over, signalling a possible shift in how the territory is administered. The move is linked to a Donald Trump-backed governance arrangement, which includes an executive board of Trump’s recently launched Board of Peace to oversee administration and reconstruction. Since the ceasefire was declared, over 400 Palestinians have been killed in continued Israeli strikes.
