A nuance with a lot of meaning. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has openly valued the possibility that the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza will not be total, but “partial”. This is the first time that the White House has so obviously admitted a change in the speech defended until now, even by Donald Trumpwhich went through the complete disarmament of the terrorist group, as part of the .
This Friday, Rubio pointed out that a scenario could be proposed in which Hamas will keep only light weapons, those that do not pose a “threat” for the present and future existence of Israel. At the moment, Tel Aviv has not responded.
“I would like us to focus on the type of weaponry and capabilities that Hamas would need to threaten or attack Israel as a basis for disarmament. Because there will be no peace if in two years Hamas launches rockets, kills Israelis or commits, God forbid, another October 7,” he said in statements to the press.
Donald Trump’s plan that brought peace to Gaza includes clandestine networks. To do this, the US president himself made it clear that the Palestinian group would need “time”, but warned that if they didn’t do their part, Washington would give Israel ‘carte blanche’ to “finish the job”. That is, to completely devastate the Strip and the still operational Hamas cadres, for whom “hell” would await, a threat very much in Trump’s taste, by the way.
Regarding the future of Gaza, the head of US diplomacy has raised what could happen if Hamas does not give up its heavy weapons. “Who is going to invest in rebuilding a place that will be destroyed again in a future war?“?” he asked himself.
For this reason, Marco Rubio sees it as crucial to work now on the disarmament of Hamas, although he did not want to put limits on what weapons they could keep and what they could not, a task that will remain in the hands of the negotiators, he added, before highlighting the same thing as his boss, that it will take “time.”
“It would have to be something they are willing to accept, something our partners can pressure them to accept. It also has to be something Israel agrees to“, he has argued, always with the idea that “there cannot be a Hamas that threatens Israel in the future. “If they can do it, there will be no peace, so that is the objective,” he concluded.
Despite what Trump stated months ago, the second phase of the peace plan in Gazaeffective from October 10, has not yet been launched and both the disarmament and demilitarization of Hamas are still pending, contemplating the creation of a temporary authority in the area, under the mandate of the magnate and president of the United States himself.
Said authority will be in charge of ordering and managing the deployment of an international peacekeeping force, among whose tasks will be guaranteeing the demilitarization process of the Strip, including the destruction and prevention of rebuilding the group’s military infrastructure, as well as the dismantling of weapons of non-state armed groups.
