The fragile truce is already accepting the first serious blows just 24 hours after its application, with both sides exchanging accusations of violating the agreed.
A new friction point between the one and the humanitarian organizations, and the other, which creates a negative climate and doubts about the implementation of the agreed, is its quantity that reaches the Gaza Strip in relation to the issue of hostages.
The Red Cross and the UN services have complained earlier today that the expected- agreed increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza has not begun and warned that the famine would take dimensions as long as its passage remains closed.
Israel claims that Hamas violated the deal, not returning the bodies of 24 Israeli hostages, although late Tuesday night the Red Cross received the corpses of four Israeli hostages. Just a day before, it was celebrating the liberation of the last 20 living hostages, while nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners had been released – images that seemed to mark a new beginning. But now the climate is changing. Hamas claims that not all burial points have been identified, while Israeli sources are talking about deliberate delay.
On the other hand of the Atlantic, Donald Trump raises the tones again, calling on Hamas to directly deliver the dead hostages: “A heavy weight has been lifted, but the job is not over. “, He wrote on Truth Social, giving a new pace to his plan for Gaza.
In fact, He warned that if Hamas does not deposit weapons, then the US would intervene to achieve it.
“If they are not disarmed, we will disarm them,” Trump told reporters who asked him how to do so. “I don’t need to explain it to you, but if they are not disarmed, we will disarm them. They know I’m not playing games. “
The two phases of the plan
The “first phase” of Trump’s peace plan seeks to meet the basic demands of both sides, namely the ceasefire of the fire in Gaza and the return of hostages to Israel.
The second phase focuses on rebuilding the Gaza Strip, in a way that guarantees constant peace and security. It also includes the first steps towards Hamas disarmament.
Trump acknowledged that the phases of the agreement “are all a little mixed with each other”, adding later that some elements can be implemented “out of order, in a positive way”.
Rafa and hostages, the friction points
“We need all the passes open,” said UNICEF spokesman Ricardo Pires. “The longer Rafa remains closed, the more the suffering for people in Gaza, especially for the displaced in the south.”
Three Israeli officials told Reuters that the decision to remain Rafa closed by Wednesday and limit supplies was linked to Hamas’ delays in returning the Israeli hostage. Hamas has long been made clear that the identification and delivery of many of the corpses of the dead hostages is a difficult task given the extent of the disaster that has taken place in Gaza. However, in the midst of Israel’s announcements on Rafa’s passage, the organization wants to show good will, but also to keep its commitments within the feasible, gave the corpses of other four hostages.
Wanting to demonstrate the necessity that exists in order to comply with the amount of humanitarian aid delivered to Gaza, the ecclesiastical of the International Red Cross Committee, who has taken on the role of neutral mediator for the traditions of the hostages: We still see only a few trucks coming and big crowds approaching these trucks in a way that does not comply with humanitarian standards at all. “
Only 300 trucks a day and not 600
The Israeli government officially responded to the above, confirming the leaks that took place earlier. According to Netanyahu’s government, the UN government informed that only 300 humanitarian trucks will be allowed to enter Gaza on Wednesday, which is half the number of those agreed, and that in addition to the lane are not allowed to enter the fuel, natural gas supplies, natural gas supplies.
Olga Cerevko, a spokesman for the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office in Gaza, confirmed that the UN received the note from Cogat, the Israeli army arm that oversees the flow of assistance to Gaza.
Cogat had stated on Friday that it was expecting about 600 help trucks to enter Gaza daily during the truce.
Cogat’s note said the restrictions were taken because “Hamas violated the agreement on the release of hostages”.
