Chapter One: Introduction -- Part I: Hamas and the 2021 Offensive on Gaza -- Chapter Two: Three in One – Hamas as an Islamist, Social, and Hyper-Nationalist Movement -- Chapter Three: The Political Economy of Israeli Economic Warfare on the Gaza Strip -- Chapter Four: The Al-Qassam Brigades and the ‘Sword of Jerusalem’ Battle – Possibilities of Proportionate Deterrence in Asymmetric Warfare -- Chapter Five: Al Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem: A New Flashpoint for Tensions in the Gaza Strip.-Chapter Six: To be or not to be – the Hamas Dilemma in Light of International Law -- Chapter Seven: Understanding the Palestinians in the May 2021 Uprising – Stuck between Palestinian Identity and Israeli Citizenship -- Part II: Responses to the 2021 Offensive on Gaza -- Chapter Eight: War on Gaza – An Unceasing Humanitarian Tragedy -- Chapter Nine: Rebuilding the Gaza Strip – Two Years after the 2021 War -- Chapter Ten: Post-war Reconstruction and the Opportunity for Improvement in the Built Environment – Examining Housing Reconstruction in Al-Qubba -- Chapter Eleven: The Philosophy of (De)development and its Dichotomy in Palestine.-Chapter Twelve: Conclusion.

Gaza’s Cycle of Destruction: Understanding the Actors, Dynamics, and Responses is an integrated, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive academic inquiry into Gaza wars and their drivers, actors, dynamic, paradigms, and responses. Unlike studies on the previous wars in Gaza, it seeks to present to the regional and global readership a different perspective towards the conflict—one that is authored by nearly a dozen Palestinian researchers and academics. It strives to steer away from the ‘Northern’-dominated research space to present an informative, analytical, and thought-provoking argument. The book provides a combination of theoretical, thematic, and topical analysis of the war. It is designed to guide the reader through the background and development of the events of the 2023 war. Put differently, the book’s objective goes beyond tracing the historical roots of instability in Gaza. Instead, it directly addresses the Gaza Strip’s contemporary context. Ghassan Elkahlout is Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) in Doha, Qatar - and Associate Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.