The announcement of the Palestinian group of Hamas which he would suspend the release of captives held in Gaza divided the Israeli company.
Hamas said on Monday that suspension was a response to Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza, which entered into force on January 19. which had been agreed within the framework of the agreement.
And on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country would resume his bombing of Gaza if Hamas had not continued the release of captives on Saturday.
If the cease-fire breaks down, this would mean that the Israeli captives still held in Gaza would remain in the enclave, to the great anger of Israeli society. The question is now where the Israelis will turn this anger.
Family members of the captives have already protested in Tel Aviv, most parents and groups pleading for captives calling for the Israeli government to ensure that the agreement does not fail and that it goes to a phase two which would guarantee the release of all the other prisoners.
But many in Israel – and within the government – opposed the ceasefire from the start, arguing that the war in Gaza, in which Israel killed more than 61,700 Palestinians, should only end with the Complete Hamas defeat. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he agreed with this, putting the following steps in the in danger agreement.
And the comments of American president Donald Trump also led to uncertainty. He said the United States should resume Gaza and move the Palestinians there – an act that would in fact be ethnic cleaning – and also called for the release of all the Israeli captives on Saturday, saying “that all ‘Hell breaks out “if they are not.
Why did Hamas interrup the exchanges?
Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Hamas armed wing, Qassam’s brigades, said on Monday: “The resistance management monitored the enemy violations and their non-compliance with the terms of the agreement. … Meanwhile, resistance has fulfilled all of its obligations. »»
According to Gaza officials, Israel has killed more than 25 Palestinians since the start of the ceasefire. Israel has also failed in the supply of desperately necessary aid, including tents, food and medical supplies. In addition, out of the 1,000 people who are desperately sick or injured, Israel has agreed to authorize Gaza for medical treatment, only 120 have so far been authorized to travel, said the Ministry of Health.
While Israeli officials have confirmed to the New York Times that Hamas’ complaints against Israel were accurate, the Israeli government officially refused them, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katz, said that Hamas declaration was “a violation complete the ceasefire agreement “.
What do families of captives say?
The demonstrators led by families of captives blocked one of the main Aviv motorways on Monday to protest against what they consider the mismanagement of the government of the ceasefire.
“We demand that the government of Israel will not be the victim of the terrorist group spin and we make sure that the open door will not be closed,” a statement published late on the forum of hostages in response to the break on Monday, on Monday. announced from Hamas.
Throughout the war, the members of the family of captives have more and more criticized Netanyahu and his government, blaming them for not having prioritized the release of those who were held in Gaza.
In September, after the discovery of the bodies of six captives who died in Gaza, more than half a million people went down to the streets through Israel and joined a general strike announced by the Histadrut union to protest against the failure of Government to conclude an agreement with Hamas with Hamas with that would see the return of captives.
How did the far-right criticism of the ceasefire in Israel respond?
The extreme right of Israel clearly indicated that its priority is the defeat of Hamas and the illegal takeover of Gaza – as well as the expulsion of its 2.3 million Palestinian residents.
The judgment agreed in January in the fighting aroused strong criticism of the far right, which grew up in influence in Israel.
The chief of them is the former Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who resigned from his cabinet post after the ceasefire was agreed, opposing the truce and the liberation Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli captives. Many thousands of Palestinians detained by Israel are imprisoned without indictment, and some of the releases are emerged and showing signs of torture. Groups of prisoners’ rights have said that dozens of Palestinians died in Israeli prisons and that rape cases have also been documented.
In tandem with Ben-Girvir, the Minister of Farm Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, would have been convinced to stay in government only in exchange for Netanyahu that Israel would resume his war against Gaza, regardless of the terms of the ceasefire.
Responding to the news that the exchange of prisoners would be interrupted, Ben-Gvir wrote on social networks: “The announcement of Hamas should have a real response: a massive fire attack against Gaza, air and earth , in parallel with a complete stop of humanitarian aid to the strip, including electricity, fuel and water, and including the bombing of aid packages that have already been brought and in the hands of Hamas in Gaza . We have to go back to war and destroy!
Smotrich and Ben-Gvir have already given less importance on the well-being of captives when they weighed with their own ambitions for the war against Gaza. In February of last year, Smotrich angry many families of those who were held in Gaza by saying that their return was “not the most important thing”. Ben-Gvir, for his part, boasted in January that he had “thwarted several times” efforts to stop the fighting in exchange for the return of the captives.
Where does that leave Netanyahu?
According to observers, the collapse of the ceasefire and the reign of the War of Israel against Gaza could benefit the Prime Minister.
Netanyahu’s criticisms have often expressed the opinion that the Prime Minister prolonged the war and thus delayed the liberation of captives to increase the distance between him and his alleged faults during October 7, 2023 led by Hamas against the South of ‘Israel as well as that as that of Hamas as well as from the south of Israel as well as that to avoid a conviction in the corruption affairs deposited against him in 2019.
In June, frustrated by Netanyahu’s reluctance to continue with the American ceasefire plan presented the previous month, former American president Joe Biden told Time magazine that there was “all the reasons why People draw ”the conclusion that Netanyahu perpetuated the conflict for sound for his own political ends.
Even the prospect of the collapse of the ceasefire and the first elections could ultimately be in the interests of Netanyahu, one of his former collaborators and political probe, Mitchell Barak, had previously told Tel Aviv Tribune. “New elections would make any government a transition,” said Barak, stressing the absence of any obvious successor. “Everything that gives Netanyahu time is always good for him. He has already done this before.
