A week has passed since the suspension of the ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip, in which the voice of the talks was scattered and the American and Israeli threats were resorted to resorting to “alternative plans” after refusing to respond to Hamas to the potential armistice proposal of up to 60 days.
Those American and Israeli conversations that were not without talking about a truce, and are corresponding to continuous Egyptian-Qatari efforts to return the negotiations, seen by experts who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat, as part of pressure on Hamas to accept the proposal without amendments or confrontation with an unprecedented escalation, expecting that the efforts of the brokers will succeed in saving the talks and reaching an agreement soon.
Since Washington and Netanyahu’s office announced the withdrawal from Doha negotiations with the aim of “consultation”, on Thursday, July 24th, in separate official statements, American and Israeli conversations have rolled over 6 days of “alternative” plans related to the occupation of new lands in Gaza if negotiations fail, unlike waving assassinations of Hamas leaders or their prosecutions.
The Haaretz newspaper revealed, on Tuesday, the head of the Prime Minister of Israel to present a plan to the miniature cabinet to “include lands in the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to maintain the Minister of Finance in Saltel Smotic in his government.”
According to the plan, “Netanyahu spoke about in a green light from the Donald Trump administration, Israel will announce that (Hamas) gives several days to agree to the ceasefire, and if it does not agree, it will begin to include the lands of the sector,” according to the same source.
The American “ABC News” network reported today (Tuesday) that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is studying the inclusion of lands in Gaza to his country if Hamas does not agree to a ceasefire plan.
The network quoted a source as saying that the inclusion of lands in Gaza is one of several options taught by Netanyahu if Hamas did not agree to the ceasefire.
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned of the gradual annexation of the Gaza Strip, and said it was an introduction to displacement and undermining the opportunity to embody the state.
And the American envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkeov and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Thursday the return of their team from Doha, which has been hosting negotiations since July 6 on Gaza, with the aim of consulting, and talking about studying “alternative options” for the return of the hostages, without specifying them.
“I think they want death, and this is very bad,” Trump said on Friday. It has reached an extent that is forced us to end the mission, “according to CNN.
The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, threatened, on Monday, that if Hamas did not release the detained hostages, “the gates of hell will open in Gaza, and I mean every word I say.”
On Monday, Trump announced to reporters in Scotland, in an interview with British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, that dealing with Hamas has become difficult in the past few days, revealing that he spoke with Netanyahu about “different plans” to return the hostages.
Israeli officials said that the political leadership is heading towards granting Hamas an additional deadline in order to reach an agreement, before activating other “alternatives”, according to sources in the Israeli security establishment, in statements to the Israeli “Walla” website, on Monday.
In the past few days, Israeli media expected that the options include the occupation of the sector in full occupation, imposing a comprehensive siege, or providing direct American support to commandos operations to liberate the kidnapped from the “Hamas” tunnels, and exert pressure on Qatar, Egypt and Turkey to expel the movement’s leaders, or give Israel the green light to target the leaders of the organization abroad. According to a report by the Israeli “Channel 12”, the last scenario appears far away.
These continuous plans come despite the announcement of the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on Sunday, in statements to “Fox News” that “great progress” had been made in the negotiations, and that they are “very close” from the agreement.
A member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, an academic specializing in Israeli affairs, Dr. Ahmed Fouad Anwar, believes that these alternative plans, the most recent of which are the annexation plan, means implementing the collapse of negotiations, and just putting them up to the conversations and an attempt to detonate them, or within the framework of pressure to achieve gains in the last moments, surprisingly that some parties put this offering at that time after about two years of war.
The Palestinian political analyst, Dr. Abdul -Mahdi Mutawa, believes that the conversations of Wittakov, Tremb and Netanyahu indicate that the current path did not lead to the results the United States desires, and we may see paths related to attempts to extract the hostages militarily or the completion of the occupation of Gaza and pressure on the leadership of Hamas abroad by activating the assassinations and confiscating funds, expected that Israel will proceed on these plans in the coming period, if any Negotiate negotiations.
He emphasized that offering these plans means for Washington and Israel to reach the maximum pressure to “Hamas”, and this certainly threatens the efforts of the brokers.
On the other hand, the reassurances of the Egyptian and Qatari mediators during this week continued to continue the “complex” negotiations in two joint statements, unlike modern Egyptian -European Arab meetings in New York, which touched on the importance of the ceasefire in Gaza.
The two intermediaries confirmed; Egypt and Qatar, “their full commitment to continuing negotiations and making efforts to quickly reach a comprehensive ceasefire agreement.” According to Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdel -Ati, and the Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, during a phone call, according to a statement of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, on Sunday.
The two intermediate countries have previously confirmed in a joint statement, Friday, the continuation of “complex” negotiations, and that “its suspension of the consultations by (Israel and Washington) before resuming the dialogue again is a natural matter.”
On the sidelines of the international conference to implement the two -state solution at the United Nations headquarters, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdel -Ati, discussed, on Tuesday, with Arab and Western counterparts, the latest developments in the ceasefire negotiations in Gaza, stressing “the need to continue to pressure Israel to stop its brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip and use it as a policy And guaranteeing the flow of humanitarian aid to the sector without obstacle.
Those talks took place between the Egyptian minister and his British counterpart, David Lami, the Minister of State at the German Foreign Ministry, Florian Han Sergey Verchainen, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Prime Minister of Palestine, Muhammad Mustafa, his Qatari counterpart Sheikh, Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Al -Safadi, according to separate data for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
Meanwhile, the Hamas negotiating delegation left, on Tuesday, the Qatari capital, Doha, heading to Turkey with the aim of discussing “the latest developments” after negotiations with Israel stalled on a ceasefire in Gaza, according to an official in the movement told the French Press Agency.
Anwar believes that the Egyptian and Qatari mediators are making every efforts to prevent entry into a new stumbling due to the differences, and adhere to the last moment of the conversations, away from the pressure of any party, stressing that negotiation is the right way to end the crisis, and any alternative path for it will not reach a result. The negotiations are expected to go to an agreement, likely to “progress” in the talks soon.
Mutawa believes that the Egyptian -Qatari statements are an attempt to save the negotiations to realize the mediators, the danger of going out of this path, and is proactive due to the expectation that there will be various arrangements that threaten the conversations.
Mutawa believes that the negotiations will be complicated if they are fulfilled again, expecting that this American pressure “Hamas” will push the proposal as it is without adjustments to prevent greater losses.
In light of a temporary humanitarian truce that continues in the sector, aid trucks moved from the Rafah crossing to its counterpart Karam Abu Salem, and entered dozens of humanitarian aid trucks, on Tuesday, from Egypt, according to what was reported by the Cairo news channel.
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