After a among the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, still know progress on a possible truce in Gaza. Neither have made any advertisement or public commitment to the 60 -day plan of high the fire in Gaza proposed by Trump. Meanwhile, in the Palestine Strip with dozens of deaths daily. More than a hundred in the last hours, according to the Ministry of Health, in the hands of Hamas.
The expectations that had been sown to move towards peace in the convulsive enclave by the two leaders have remained, at least for the moment, parked. Netanyahu was received Tuesday night by Trump for the second time in less than 24 hours. The act did not attend the media or a subsequent joint appearance that helped to think about a progress towards the end of the attacks in the strip.
The truce and, in general, the peace process in the Strip, which is part of the release of hostages, headed the agenda of the two leaders. The maximum of what the prime minister has arrived is to consider that truce initiative as during his visit to the Capitol. But at no time has it left that low profile, although it does maintain a delegation negotiating indirectly with Hamas in Doha (Qatar). According to the Sky News channel, Trump exerted “great pressure” on his interlocutor to accept the fire. Shortly before the second meeting of both, which took place in the Oval Office, a Catarí delegation also arrived at the White House.
There is a statement issued by the Israeli president’s office, based on a one -minute video that Netanyahu has recorded, which does not expressly refer to those two months of calm proposed by the US president and that aims to be the previous step to a definitive end of the contest.
Trump, very given to triumphalism and the blows of effect, said on Sunday, the eve of receiving Netanyahu for the first time, who saw an agreement possible throughout this week. But, after the two meetings of both, there are no signs, at least in public, that indicate that this will happen.
Of four problems to one
“We had four problems, but,” the American negotiator, Steve Witkoff had pointed out, in reference to certain advances in Doha, where he believes that a pact could be closed at the end of this week. That stumbling block would be the relocation of Israeli occupation troops in the enclave during the 60 days.
Israel, as it has transcended in some media, intends to keep its troops in the so -called Morag corridor that separates the city of Jan Yunis from Rafah’s southern area, border with Egypt. It is in this second town, practically in ruins, where the Government of Israel intends to raise what qualifies as “humanitarian city.” It is really, as announced by Defense, Israel Katz, of.
The differences surpassed in the Israeli media, are that Israel accepts that the UN participates in the distribution of help, the exchanges of hostages for Palestinian prisoners and that the high fire is maintained if the conversations continue to exceed 60 days.
But, coinciding with the meeting in Washington on Tuesday night, Witkoff would have delayed his trip to Doha to join the conversations, a gesture that the newspaper The Times of Israel interprets that the process seems to have slowed down. Meanwhile, the Israeli chief negotiator, Ron Dermer, continues to accompany Netanyahu in the United States, which leads to conclude, according to some media, that the delegation of the Jewish State in Doha has no room for maneuver or can make decisions.
Netanyahu, in his message, is limited to remembering about Gaza in essence what has been affirming in recent months, without leaving that lane, in addition to adding that they have also addressed the conflict with Iran and the expansion of Abraham’s agreements. “We are determined to achieve all our objectives: the liberation of all our hostages, both living and deceased, and the elimination of the military and government capacity of Hamas, thus guaranteeing that Gaza never represents a threat to Israel again,” said Prime Minister.
If for Hamas it is essential to tie the end of the war, for Israel the cornerstone of the agreement is the liberation of the hostages. It is half a hundred in Gaza, most already given by dead. During the 60 days of truce, according to the draft agreement that appeared in different media, 10 living would be released and 18 bodies would be delivered in exchange for Palestinian prisoners of Israeli prisons. They would therefore be 22 other captives in the Palestinian enclave.
Guerrilla war
There, the guerrilla war still impose on the ground. in which five Israeli soldiers died and two were very serious on Monday night in northern Gaza needs an operation by the Islamist group of a certain size, according to the details of the attack published in the Israeli press. A first bomb exploded to the passage of several military on foot, when their teammates came to help the victims exploded a second … and a third, all in the midst of shots from Palestinian positions. That was the prologue of the first of this week between Netanyahu and Trump in the White House.
The attitude and reactions of the Prime Minister in Washington do not show that there has been a change of position in their way of thinking, in their way of managing a war that already enters the month number 22 and that has cost life to more than 57,700 Gazati and almost 900 Israeli soldiers. “Netanyahu only looks for a partial agreement. Not only does it seek way to resume fighting after the high fire of 60 days and the return of half of the living hostages,” says Amos Harel in Haaretz. The prime minister adds the analyst, maintains his idea of promoting “the expulsion of Gaza residents, forcing most of them to take refuge in the Rafah area, a completely destroyed city.”
It is the aforementioned, another euphemism as of the voluntary emigration to refer to the plan to deport hundreds of thousands of Palestinians abroad.
