JERUSALEM: In spite of the ongoing risk of renewed fighting in Gaza, stakeholders have spent months preparing for the post-war phase.
Plans for governance, security and humanitarian relief have begun to take shape, but remain largely theoretical in the absence of a political agreement, credible security guarantees and sustained funding.
Below are some of the key challenges facing local and international players as they seek to rebuild the devastated territory home to more than two million Palestinians.
Security remains the cornerstone of every post-war scenario under discussion.
Israel insists Hamas must disarm before any progress can be made, while the Palestinian Islamist movement refuses to surrender its weapons before Israeli troops withdraw and a Palestinian governing authority is established.
