Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

For 700,000 children in Gaza, tent classrooms are now the closest thing to school. But after three years of war, Ruwaida Amer reported, they cannot restore the education, routine, and community students once had.

Shatha Yaish reported on Israel’s settlement drive that is rapidly transforming the area around the West Bank city of Jenin: New outposts, roads, and military bases are carving up Palestinian communities in a region that saw little settlement activity for two decades.

Last week, the Israeli army published “The Press Files” — a new list of 170 Palestinian journalists and media workers whom Israel killed in the Gaza war and alleges were “terrorists.” Yet as Muhammad Shehada revealed, after combing through each entry, the evidence consists of empty pages, clearly edited documents, and unverifiable snippets.

Aharon Porath wrote about Israel’s flailing chatbot army: No longer able to rely on traditional lobbying, Israel is pouring huge funds into ‘cognitive warfare’ aimed at manipulating the responses of AI platforms (originally published in Local Call).

And on the latest episode of the +972 Podcast, Ghousoon Bisharat spoke with Palestinian journalist Mohmamed Mhawish, who reported for +972 Magazine and other outlets for the first six months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza before leaving the enclave. Three years after Oct. 7, he reflected on the physical and mental toll of survival, and how he remembers Gaza as a place of life.

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