Despite Hamas and President Trump’s fighting threats overnight to remove the peace in Gaza, officials and analysts in the region remained hopeful that the arrangements survived the weekend. Will – though probably not much time.
The deal came close to falling when Hamas said it would delay the next release of Israeli hostages. Mr Trump retreated in retaliation promising “all hell”. But within hours, Hamas softened its position. And even Mr Trump’s statement had a warning that said he might not be in danger.
Nevertheless, the Stand -of -Off have highlighted the possibility of the hereditary framework and decrease in the deal that it will continue for a longer long time since the beginning of March, when the ceasefire ends until Hamas and Israel Can’t discuss extension.
All the big players have made it difficult to do so.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has delayed the talks, which is cautious of the expansion that will give Hamas a chance to remain a dominant military force in Gaza. Hamas, although he is ready to share administrative control with other Palestinian factions as a nominee, has not given any indication that it will be cleansed.
“It is likely that they will reach an agreement before a week,” said Ibrahim Dallasha, director of the horizon center in Ramullah, on the West Bank. “But this crisis is the forerunner of a major crisis that is coming in early March.”
The current stand -off with Hamas’s allegation is that Israel has failed to keep its promises for the first phase of the ceasefire. It was a six -week period that began on January 19. Under the terms of the agreement, Israel was needed. In addition to other humanitarian supplies, send hundreds of thousands of tents to Gaza, a promise that Hamas says Israel has not kept.
Talking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, three Israeli officials and two mediators said Hamas’s claims were correct.
But the Israeli military units, which oversee Gaza’s aid, said in a written reply that they were “completely false accusations. Hundreds of thousands of tents from the beginning of the deal, as well as fuel, generators and Israel.” Has promised
Regardless of, officials and observers say that if Israel allows Gaza further assistance, this aspect of the conflict can be resolved relatively easily.
The more serious problem is that Mr Netanyahu is trying to weaken the negotiations on whether to extend the war ahead of the march.
The purpose of these talks was to start early last week. Instead, Mr Netanyahu delayed sending a team to Qatar earlier this week, which is mediation between the two sides.
The delegation consisted of three officials who have not previously guided Israeli negotiation efforts, according to a five Israeli officials and one of the mediating countries. And their mandate was just to hear, not to talk.
According to two officials, the Israeli delegation heard a general Qatari proposal about the next phase of the talks, then announced that it would return to Israel.
He made the impression that Mr. Netanyahu was playing for a time, rather than trying to increase the war.
All the officials spoke on the condition of not disclosing their names to discuss private talks more independently.
It was asked to comment, Prime Minister’s spokesman, Amir Dostri, said that Mr Netanyahu “Hamas is working hard to return all the hostages placed by the terrorist organization.” Mr Dostri added that the Israeli cabinet will send a negotiating team to discuss the extension of the deal after the establishment of an Israeli cabinet.
But Mr Netanyahu has often said that Hamas will not remain in power at the end of the war. And key members of Mr Netanyahu’s Governing Alliance have repeatedly called to resume the war to end Hamas, yet most Israeli people extend the war to liberate more hostages It has been demanded, even if it leaves Hamas to power.
On Monday, the threat of Hamas was not only an attempt to accelerate Gaza’s relief, but also to force Mr Netanyahu to seriously talk, analysts said.
This is dominant. Mr Trump’s recent statements about settling Gaza were also a response, in which there is no future for Palestinians in the post -war region, leave Hamas.
Hamas did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Hamas is angry about Hamas about the demands of both Netanyahu and Trump that Hamas will be expelled from Gaza,” said Michael Milshtin, Israeli analyst on Palestinian affairs.
Mr Melshin added, “This announcement was a kind of indication that, if you continue to demand it, there will be a lot of dramatic crisis.”
Naton Oden Hymer And Gabi Sobelman Reporting was contributed.
