Hamas has delivered to the mediators his response to the Peace Plan for Gaza of the president of the United States, Donald Trump. In a statement, he has assured that he agrees to free the last hostages still retained In the strip, 48 (only 20 of them alive), but asks “to immediately start negotiations through mediators to discuss the details.” He also shows that a Palestinian technocratic government manages the territory, but eludes thorny issues such as the international supervision mechanism, chaired by Trump, or the disarmament of the militia.
The White House has already announced that it will give an institutional message about the Oval Office, but while Trump has published a message on its Truth social network in which it positively welcomes the response of the Islamist group: “Based on the statement that Hamas has just issued, I think they are prepared for lasting peace. Israel must immediately stop the bombings on Gaza, so that we can rescue the hostages and Fast.
Trump had imposed on this day an account back so that Hamas accepted that he publicly presented last Monday, Already with the approval of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, who introduced last minute changes in the final draft. In a message, also in Truth, the Republican had given the Palestinian fundamentalist group (00.00, Spanish peninsular time), to respond and threatened a “hell” if he did not accept the proposal. “There will be peace in one way or another,” he wrote.
The weakened Hamas, with hardly any allies and also pressed by the Arab countries to accept Trump’s plan, seeks to avoid reasons for Israel and the US to trigger the “hell” with which Trump has threatened this Friday. In fact, not only appreciates the “Arab, Islamic and international efforts to put an end to the conflict, but also expressly those of the US president.
The Islamist movement accepts the release of the last hostages “in accordance with the exchange formula included in President Trump’s proposal, provided that the conditions for the process are given”, which in the document are the “suspension of all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardments.”
In the appearance before the press of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, after a meeting of both in the Oval Office, Trump said that if Hamas accepted it, he would have a maximum of 72 hours to deliver all the hostages at the same time.
Once released, Israel will release 1,700 Gazati detained in the mass arrests made by the Israeli army in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including all women and children, and 250 prisoners convicted of at least one life imprisonment for the use of violence within the framework of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They are almost all (about 300) those imprisoned for perpetuity, although in previous exchanges Israel have chosen who, discarding those that Palestinian nationalism has raised as heroes.
For each body of Israeli hostage delivered, the Netanyahu government will do the same with the remains of 15 of the lifeless Gazaties, whose corpses retains. The militia had already accepted before delivering all the hostages (as in the high fire in phases that Netanyahu broke last March in order to continue the invasion) and leave the administration of Gaza in the hands of another government.
Hamas does not mention one of the most controversial points: the international organism that Trump will preside over and in which the former British prime minister Tony Blair will participate to supervise that Hamas will not have war capabilities. It limits itself to underline its “approval to delivering the administration of Gaza to a Palestinian organism of independent technocrats, based on the Palestinian National Consensus and Arab and Islamic support.”
Trump’s plan indicates that “Gaza will be governed by a temporary transitory government of a technocratic and apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for the daily management of public services and municipalities.”
To add confusion to the “details” that Hamas intends to negotiate, one of its leaders, Musa Abu Marzuk, has unreald positions that collide directly with the Trump plan. Among them, that the group will not disassemble “as long as the Israeli occupation lasts” and that will be part of the “National Palestinian Comprehensive Framework” debated by Gaza’s future. The plan agreed by Israel and the US is clear: Hamas will not play “any role in the Gaza government, directly, indirectly or in any way.”
Abu Marzuk does not accept the supervision agency that Trump will preside and that is not mentioned in the official response to the plan. “We will never allow anyone not to control the Palestinians,” he said before appointing the former British prime minister Tony Blair, whom Trump mentioned as one of the future members of that body. “He cannot become governor of Gaza,” he said, because “Iraq destroyed,” in reference to his support in 2003, when the British executive led, to the US invasion.
This is the first official response of the Palestinian militia to a peace proposal that only includes a specific term: the 72 -hour for the liberation of Israeli hostages still captive in Gaza. On Monday, Hamas said he had not had access to the document before the White House released the 20 definitive points, retouched at the last moment to adapt them to Israeli demands. The peace plan, with just three folios, was published immediately before a joint appearance of the two leaders.
On Wednesday, militia sources cited by Saudi media, claimed that the plan is from Gaza, one of the main demands to which Hamas has conditioned in the past any possible truce. The Islamist group was also aspiring and demanded an amendment to the Trump plan that distinguishes between offensive weapons, which would deliver, and defensive, which aims to keep. None of those demands appears in your response.
