Hamas, the Palestinian militia in whose hands is now accepting or rejecting the plan for a high fire in Gaza by Donald Trump and Benjamín Netanyahu, “is inclined to accept” the plan of the president of the United States, which he will respond this Wednesday, as he announced to the CBS News chain a source close to the negotiations. The Islamist group officially received a plan that has been forged without its participation and that, in practice, demands the surrender.
While the international community and the Arab countries move the pressure to the Islamist group by supporting the document, the Israeli prime minister has already begun on Tuesday to review these promises, similar to others that has broken before. In a video broadcast on its official channels, Netanyahu has assured that its army will remain in “most” of the strip and that there will be no Palestinian state.
Waiting for the official reaction of the group to the proposal presented on Monday by the president of the United States and his Israeli ally in the White House, a responsible for the Islamist militia in Gaza, Ismail Al Thawabta, director of his media office, has shown his misgivings before the Plan, which has assimilated to “an attempt to impose” a “new guardianship that legitimates the Israeli occupation.”
Hamas has few options. He faces the difficult choice between rejecting the plan – which would give Israel free, with the blessing of the United States, to closely destroy their exhausted and decimated inhabitants – or accept it, when that document does not collect guarantees that Israel respects its content.
The Islamist group also faces that dilemma with fewer supports than ever. This Tuesday, the Foreign Ministries of up to eight Muslim countries, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and, bleak away for Hamas, their until now Valitor Qatar – which houses the headquarters of their political office – have published a joint statement in which they support the plan. From that document, they applaud what is the biggest concession that have started to Trump and Netanyahu: the resignation, at least on paper, to execute an ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians. This serious war crime was in previous republican plans, such as the Riviera de Oriente Nearwhich intended to turn the strip into a beach complex for millionaires.
Hamas has not officially responded to this proposal that places it between the sword and the wall, but the second armed group of the strip, the Islamic jihad, yes. He did it on Monday night, when his leader Ziyad al Nakhalah described Trump’s project as “a recipe to continue aggression against the Palestinian people.”
The rejection of this other armed group is not entirely irrelevant. Islamic jihad took some of the 251 hostages arrested on October 7, and still retains several of the 48 captives, between living and dead, that the Palestinian factions should deliver Israel within 72 hours as a previous condition for the high fire that Washington poses.
The head of the Hamas Media Office in Gaza, to Thawabta, has been expressed in terms similar to that of the Islamic Jihad leader in his tweet. This person in charge of the armed group governing Gaza – or ruled before the Israeli invasion – considers that the “only way to stop war is to end the aggression” of that country, “to raise the unfair block, stop systematic genocide” and give the Palestinians “their right to live, guaranteeing their inalienable rights (…) to freedom, independence and self -determination.” Al Thawabta also indicates the need for a “worldwide recognition” of the law of the Palestinians to establish their status.
“Any proposal that ignores these rights and treats Gaza as a security entity devoid of sovereignty under international administration faces the complete rejection of the Palestinian national collective consciousness,” continues the message. It probably refers to the temporary government agency that includes Trump’s plan, which would be chaired by himself, and in which the president has confirmed that, if he comes to see the light, the former British prime minister Tony Blair, very unpopular among the Palestinians, will have a relevant role.
This Monday, a Hamas official cited anonymously by the BBC chain had indicated that the group was open to study “any proposal that may end the war in Gaza.”
The official showed an initial rejection for the group to disarm and said that the militia would only deliver its weapons to a future Palestinian state, at the borders of 1967, that is, Gaza, Bank and East Jerusalem. This person responsible for the Islamist militia also stressed the one that has been the main demand of Hamas to accept the definitive fire, the complete withdrawal of the Israeli troops of the Palestinian strip.
Netyahu’s video
In the press conference with Trump in the White House on Monday, Netanyahu had already reviewed the decline – at the afraid of a “modest withdrawal” – the gradual replication of inaccurate contours of the Israeli army that raises the proposal of the president of the USA. in a buffer zone in the perimeter of Gaza. In the almost two years that the Israeli invasion lasts, at least 66,000 people have died in Israeli attacks in that Palestinian territory invaded, the majority – more than 80%, according to data from the Israeli troops – civil.
In the video broadcast on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister has gone further. He has boasted that this agreement will allow his army to “remain in most of Gaza”, something that does not collect any of the 20 points of the plan endorsed by the Trump administration. He has also denied that the document raises a way towards a future Palestinian state. “Of course not, that is not even written in the agreement,” he said. Actually, a Palestinian state, but hypothetically and, again, without specific terms or conditions.
Netanyahu has also congratulated “the global pressure” on the militia to accept this pax trumpiana. Western leaders – especially in France, Germany, the EU and, in a more restrained tone, of Spain – have already supported the 20 -point plan. So have done the Arab and Muslim powers, something that the Israeli prime minister has stood out before congratulating that his country has “changed the script” and “isolated to Hamas.”
Meanwhile, the destruction of the strip continues and Israeli attacks continue to kill its inhabitants. According to Palestinian hospital sources in the enclave, between midnight on Monday and on the morning of Tuesday, another 29 people have died as a result.
