12/4/2024–|Last updated: 12/4/202412:41 AM (Mecca time)
Analysts believe that the agreement of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) to form a joint committee to manage the Gaza Strip will be an important step toward stopping the Israeli war on the Strip.
Agence France-Presse quoted leaders in Hamas and Fatah as confirming that the two movements agreed to form a joint committee to manage the Gaza Strip in the next phase of the war, and that they called it the “Community Support Committee.”
Writer and political analyst Ahmed Al-Hila said – in his speech during the analytical pause “The Course of Events” – that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always used the issue of the day after the war and who runs the Gaza Strip as an excuse, in order to complicate the negotiations.
He recalled that the Hamas movement announced more than once that it does not seek power in the Gaza Strip, but that the matter can be managed with Palestinian consensus.
Al-Hila considered that the agreement between the Fatah and Hamas movements is “an essential part and will be an important entry point in moving towards arranging a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,” and in this context he pointed out that Egypt is trying to take the pretexts out of Netanyahu’s hand.
Thomas Warrick, a former official in the US State Department for Middle East Affairs, in his speech during the analytical pause “The Course of Events”, recalled that the US administration refuses to let Hamas manage the Gaza Strip after the war stops, and for his part, he spoke of American efforts to reach a solution. A ceasefire agreement in the Palestinian Strip.
It is noteworthy that the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden confirmed that it is currently working with Qatar, Turkey and Egypt, in order to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the military establishment in Israel informed the political level that “conditions have ripened” to conclude a deal with Hamas following the end of the Lebanon war and the events in Syria, in addition to the change in the American administration.
Trump’s threat
In turn, writer Ihab Jabareen, who specializes in Israeli affairs, said that there are no favorable conditions for any agreement within Netanyahu’s government, and he cited a statement by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir two days ago in which he said that “any agreement that might lead to an end to the war in Gaza will lead to his resignation from the government.” “.
Jabareen pointed out the importance of internal and external pressures in pressuring the Israeli Prime Minister, and said that his acceptance of the agreement with Lebanon came due to the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in addition to what Jabareen described as the blackmail that France practiced with Netanyahu.
He doubted the US administration’s real intention to put pressure on Israel, because – in Jabareen’s opinion – it still accuses Hamas and the Palestinian resistance of obstructing the negotiations and, in return, defends Israel.
Regarding US President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of consequences that he likens to hell in the Middle East, if the prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip are not released before his inauguration on January 20, the former official at the US State Department for Middle East Affairs explained that Trump is ready to do anything. He believes it is in an American interest.
He ruled out negotiating with Hamas, but he will put pressure on the countries that support it and receive its leaders on their lands, and he specifically mentioned Iran.
As for the writer and political analyst Al-Hila, he said that Trump’s threat was misplaced and was issued in an undiplomatic manner, and he ruled out that it would affect the position of the Hamas movement, because the Gaza Strip is going through worse, explaining that the one obstructing the negotiations is Netanyahu and Israel, and not Hamas, which demands the rights of the Palestinian people. And do not set impossible conditions.
