The 20 points of the only one contain a deadline: the 72 hours that have the little that remains of Hamas to suddenly deliver their only negotiating trick (the 48 hostages, less than half alive) since Israel formally accepts it. Everything else lacks dates, guarantees and, above all, agreement of the other party: the Islamist movement, which claimed not to have received the text even before the White House itself distributed it to journalists. It is basically an ultimatum to accept its unconditional surrender.
Place Hamas between the sword and the wall. On the one hand you have the threats if you do not comply with it: from Netanyahu (“We will finish the work on our own”) and Trump (“It has all my support to do what you have to do”). And after almost two years of death, hunger and endless forced displacements. On the other, the void jump of folding to the enclosure, immediately deliver to the hostages and accept a kind of foreign government supervised by Trump himself, without more guarantee than a role like the one that Netanyahu signed last January and threw in the trash two months later, with the full blessing of the president of the United States. Everything, of course,.
His only victory would be abandonment, on paper, of the ethnic cleaning Trump had raised last February and, with the support of the majority of Israeli society. The US president changed several times of version, but at the time he assured that the Palestinians who leave an invivible gaza after almost two years of devastation could not return. Point 8 of the Plan states, on the other hand, that “no one will be forced to leave it and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and return.” “We will encourage people to stay and we will offer them the opportunity to build a better gaza,” he continues.
It is also a brake on the dream of Netanyahu’s most extremist partners to annex and recolonize Gaza, with which their hands were already rubbing, imagining real estate projects.
The plan disseminated by the White House remembers negotiated in Lebanon last year, after more than two months of war in which the militia. The Armed Forces of Israel have continued to bombard since then almost daily Lebanese territory (this Monday has killed two other members of Hezbollah) and presses its weak state to disarm the group. When they had to retire on the other side of the border, they failed to comply with the pact, leaving five military positions in the south.
In this case, the task of “demilitarizing Gaza” will be supervised by “independent observers” and “will include permanent disabled dislike through an agreed process of dismantling.” “The regional partners will ensure that Hamas and the factions fulfill their obligations and that the new Gaza does not represent a threat to their neighbors or for their population,” he says.
An example of the challenges posed by a path without dates and cooked between one of the parties (Israel) and its main ally (USA), not counting on the other, is the difference in interpretation about the meaning of “end of war.” The text says: “If both parties agree with this proposal, the war will end immediately.” Netanyahu has spoken, on the other hand, in the press conference of an initial “modest withdrawal”, followed by the liberation of the hostages and the establishment of the international organism to disarm Hamas. “If this international organism is successful, we will have permanently end the war,” he said.
The text reserves to the National Palestinian Authority (ANP) – according to the agreements signed with Israel since the 1990s – a role with so many conditional already so long term that it sounds like Desideátum. In a first phase, of course without date, the international agency “will establish the framework and manage the financing for the reurbing of Gaza so far” in which the ANP “has completed its reform program” and “can recover the control of Gaza in a safe and effective way.” When is in practice in Israel.
The plan treats the ruins of the Palestinian enclave mainly as an investment opportunity. Plan the creation of “a Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza, calling for a panel of experts who have helped give birth to some of the prosperous modern miraculous cities in the Middle East.” Very in the line that the US president spread in February, imagining the Gaza of the future as a kind of Dubai with smiling people, tickets to the wind and Elon Musk on vacation. He also mentions “Reflective Investment Proposals and Emotive Development Ideas” prepared by “well -intentioned international groups” and the establishment of “a special economic zone with preferential and access tariffs that will be negotiated with the participating countries”.
Point 5 includes even a childish mention of the amnesty that the members of Hamas will receive to deliver their weapons and “commit to peaceful coexistence.” And on 18, “an interreligious dialogue process based on the values of tolerance and peaceful coexistence to try to change the mentality and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis, emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.”
Incomplete withdrawal
Israel, in any case, will not fully remove its troops, but will maintain (a priori permanently) the control of what calls a “buffer zone”. It is something. In fact, the troops have demolished all the buildings in the perimeter, which will continue to isolate the strip of Egypt.
As the commentator of Diplomatic Affairs of the Israeli newspaper remembered this Monday Haaretz Amir Tibon, the agreement will be a “disastrous failure” if Trump does not convince the Islamist group – through the mediators – and the international community that, this time, it will control Netanyahu. Hamas has all the reasons to distrust because, until now, the Israeli prime minister has done otherwise.
First, with the aforementioned the fire last January, in the last days of the presidency of Joe Biden. Netanyahu basically accepted the same text he had been rejecting for months, as a welcome gift to the Republican President, who was about to return to the White House.
The pact contained three phases. In the first, Israel recovered 33 hostages in exchange for ceasing almost all bombings, release about a thousand Palestinian prisoners and allow the entry of more humanitarian aid. The last phase was the high permanent fire. Netanyahu refused to negotiate the passage to the second phase, cut every entry of food, water and electricity to Gaza, with a brutal morning of bombing that left more than 400 dead. Netanyahu had signed the agreement with the intention of fulfilling only the first phase, according to its own finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich. Trump blessed the death of his own creature and held Hamas responsible, although he had respected the terms of the pact more than the Israeli prime minister.
It was March 2025. Two months later, liberation came without counterparts by Hamas by Edan Alexander. He is an American-Israeli who was born in Tel Aviv, spent almost all his life in the US and, when he returned to his native country, he enlisted in the army. He was captured, in the military base where he monitored the border. It is the only delivery that Washington negotiated directly with an organization, Hamas, which he defines as a terrorist. It was basically a gesture “in good faith” towards Trump (as he defined it) that did not change anything, once the exrehén received a hot welcome in New Jersey.
Beyond, forced by Trump, Netanyahu also did not pay any price for trying to kill Hamas leaders abroad. They were just gathered to analyze a draft of the plan that this Monday has ended up watching on television as a tragala.
