No one had real hope, but a little faith – which is more blind, less realistic – in the agreed between Hamas and Israel and that entered into force on January 19. That truce no longer exists. Tel Aviv has launched a series of attacks on the strip, with explosions every five or six seconds, and have buried an armistice that has remained in the hope. Just a respite. Now the question is whether the government is going to settle for tanks and bombings or will resume the land offensive. The war is back.
Israel again raises its “fight against terror”, in which since October 7, 2023, more than 48,000 Palestinians from Gaza have died, because negotiations to expand the high fire have failed. The first stage was over on March 1 and since then it was lived in time. The details of that next flying goal were talking, with the mediation of Egypt, Qatar and the United States, but the tension had been installed on the table. Tel Aviv accused Hamas of not delivering more hostages. Hamas to Israel for (food, water, medicines, tents, blankets) and fuel.
Netanyahu has broken the deck. The Palestinian militiamen ask the negotiators to explain to what point the contacts were and why they were not justified, they say, this multiple attack, which is not the first but the greatest: only one day before, the armed forces of Israel killed 15 civilians Gazati more and there was still talk of high fire in force. “It’s inadmissible,” says the UN.
The new attacks in Gaza seem to be an attempt to force Hamas concessions, directly. Israel’s night attacks against Gaza did not reach an immediate land invasion, suggesting that the Netanyahu cabinet could be waiting to evaluate the reaction of the Islamic resistance movement before returning to a large -scale land war like the one that lasted almost 16 months.
The conversations stagnated after Israel pressed Hamas to release a significant number of hostages, a measure that Hamas was not willing to take without guarantees that Israel would allow him to remain in power in Gaza after the end of the war. He maintains on Tuesday that the Palestinian group thought that a truce could achieve for the Ramadan celebration, the sacred month of fasting in Islam, a permit that “the Government of Israel is not believed, which understands that its claim was not humanitarian, but strategy, an attempt to have time to” rebuild strength. ” The Jerusalem Postfor example, that Hamas has been recruiting people since the end of January and has at least 25,000 active militiamen.
The truth is that there have been no attacks by Hamas to Israel or in the time of truce or these days of uncertain negotiations, when there has been a constant trail of deaths caused by Israel. On March 17, Hamas insisted that his adversary had killed 160 Gazatis in the so -called peace time. His strength, with this long contest, has remained and, for example, lacks fire power. Its strength is hostages, 59 people kidnapped by the militia of those who at least 24 remain alive. One of them, without identifying, would have died in the bombings of this last night.
Waiting to see if there is a new land incursion or if the nature of the offensive is limited to the air and the perimeter of the strip, there is why Netanyahu’s maneuver. What he is looking for is the flexibility of Hamas, which give in the delivery of hostages and, also, in the subsequent plans for the control of the territory, a very very green phase in the debates and for which we only have reference the plan presented by the president of the USA, Donald Trump, which implies the expulsion of the Gazati and.
Hamas has already said that it does not go through the hoop. Aizat Al Rashq, a senior Hamas official, said: “The enemy will not achieve through the war what he did not achieve with negotiations.” He has also accused Netanyahu of “resuming war as a lifeguard before Israel’s internal crises.” In a statement, his Milicia party condemned the attacks, stating that Israel had condemned the remaining hostages in Gaza to an “unknown destiny” and demanding that it be demanded “totally responsible for violating and annuling the agreement.” Fear in Israel is for the future of those hostages, precisely.
The Israeli finance minister of the extreme right, declared that Israel’s goal was to “destroy Hamas”, expressing his hope that the new attacks would become an “completely different operation from what has been done so far.” Netanyahu’s words when announcing the barrage were clear: “From now on, Israel will perform against Hamas with greater force.”
Given this situation, neither forward nor behind, what is feared is a war of wear, again, on a population that is at the limit of their forces. Even so, in its official statement announcing the resumption of intense military action, the Israeli government was something cautious. He avoided mentioning the duration of the operation or if he would include the type of land invasion necessary to expel Hamas of power. In mid -morning, the Israeli army has ordered the Palestinian civilians to leave two areas close to the common border, but again avoided mentioning the deployment of troops and tanks there. The reality is one: the Gazatis have to leave their homes or what remained of them.
Friends and family say goodbye to the Gazatis killed last night at the Ahli Arab or Bautista hospital, in the city of Gaza.
A good context for ‘bibi’
The return to war is beneficial for Netanyahu. Beyond the arguments that his team gives about how bad the negotiations and the violation of the agreement were going to free the kidnapped, this attack is understood as an escape forward in an internal complex moment but before which he knows that he has the support of the US, his usual ally, now more allied with Trump in command.
On the one hand, the prime minister announced on Sunday that, which has reaped the criticism of the opposition and the State Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, who warned of his illegality and the conflict of interest he can assume. The Shin Bet is currently investigating – after the Attorney General ordered – several ex -mars and spokesmen of the Netanyahu office for the scandal of the Qatargatethat splenges them with alleged financial links with this Gulf country. On March 4, and against the opposition of the Government, these spies concluded that the financing of Qatar to the military wing of Hamas -without intervention of Israel -, as well as the treatment of the Palestinian prisoners and the internal division in the country by the judicial reform sponsored by Netanyahu, laid the foundations for the attack.
Before the announcement of Netanyahu, two demonstrations of protest have been convened on Tuesday in Jerusalem and a third in Tel Aviv, which at the moment are still standing, EFE reports. A social pressure that can be diluted again by war.
It was also feared that the truce would be broken in this second phase because the ultra -nationalist and religious parties that have supported Netanyahu this legislature had been announced, after talking with Prime Minister himself. The three ministers of the Jewish power party, which leads the hitherto head of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, presented their resignation in January and left the Council of Ministers for discrepancies with the armistice, but left the door open to return if it broke. Today, media like They take that return. The majority will be shoring again, with formations that aspire to send, as little, settlers and soldiers.
The open conflict puts Israel again before a state of surveillance or semi -semi -alert that alters routines and, for example, that translates into another benefit for Netanyahu, judicial in this case: the judge has admitted his request to, in these circumstances, not to declare yet in the trial for alleged corruption that is followed against him. He is investigated for the crimes of fraud, abuse of trust and acceptance of bribes, in three separate pieces.
Where does noise expect is among the families of those kidnapped by Hamas, who say that with this attack “the worst” of their forecasts has been fulfilled. “Our greatest fear has come true (…) The Government has decided to deliver to the hostages,” denounces in a statement the forum of hostage and missing families. “Why don’t you fight in the negotiation room? Why do you leave the agreement that could have brought everyone to home?” “Returning to the fight before the last hostage will be released will bring the cost of the 59 captives in Gaza and could be saved and returned,” continues the statement.
“The Israeli government has refused to declare the end of the war to implement the following steps of the agreement and recover the hostages,” he says, in a very different version than the executive gives, which insists that Hamas must have released on March 1, on March 8 and 15, at least nine people.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an evaluation of the security situation in the Kirya in Tel Aviv with the Minister of Defense, Yisrael Katz, and the heads of the Defense establishment.
Hamas Allies Crisis
Hamas, while, looks alone, because the US continues to carry out more and more air attacks against Yemen’s hutis ,. Now, those rebels will be more pressured because they have to deal with the US Navy and the USS Harry S. Truman war planes. American air attacks, which began four days ago, are key to a broader effort in the region against Iran and its allies.
Iran has distanced himself from the hutis. He knows he is playing with fire with the Trump administration. The White House has declared that Iran could be considered responsible. Therefore, the Islamic Republic has done everything possible so that it seems that it does not support the hutis. Going out to attack Israel or Washington’s interests for this new return to violence in Gaza, then, it is also complicated, in a moment of remarkable domestic weakness and when it lacks its until now executing arms in the Middle East, part of their resistance axis, such as the Libanese of Hizbulá and the Government of Syria de Bashar el Assad.
The new attacks will lead to where the new attacks will lead. The Trump administration has supported that Israel does what he wants in Gaza and will continue to do so. The Arab states have supported an alternative to what the Republican wants, almost an “ethnic cleaning”, in the words of the UN. Everything is in the air.
The only concrete is the graves that multiply with members of an awkward town, collapsed hospitals, the closed steps through which it does not help or leave sick and hostages that do not return home, for now or nobody knows when. Again.
