Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

On Wednesday night, dozens of Israeli settlers invaded the isolated West Bank village of Tuba, wounding residents, burning houses, and destroying solar panels. Tuba has been the target of settler arson attacks before, but as Basel Adra witnessed firsthand, this pogrom appeared to be on a different scale.

Ruwaida Amer reported on Gaza’s surging miscarriage crisis: Pregnancy losses more than tripled in the first half of this year, as women endure hunger, repeated displacement, ongoing Israeli bombardment, and the collapse of much of the healthcare system.

Last month, Hamas elected Khalil Al-Hayya as its new leader, and he now faces his first challenge as Israel sabotages negotiations over Gaza’s future. Al-Hayya is a known pragmatist, Muhammad Shehada argued, but Hamas’ militant wing aided his election — and it won’t accept Israel’s deliberately unworkable demands.

And Em Hilton wrote about the Nova Exhibition, a travelling installation that brings visitors back to the site of Hamas’ largest massacre on October 7 — and seeks to suspend them there in perpetuity. Borrowing heavily from Holocaust memorialization, the exhibit pushes visitors to identify with Israeli festivalgoers and forget everything else.

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