Hamas has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of sabotaging the Gaza stopfire concurment, saying the Israeli regulatement is not engaging in negotiations for the second phase of the deal due to finish on March 1.
Details of the second and third phases of the concurment, though understood to be concurd to in principle, were presumed to be barachieved during the six-week first phase, which has seen the free of Israeli captives in exalter for Palestinian prisoners, the inentire retreatal of Israeli troops from Gaza and dedwellry of aid into the enclave deimmenseated by the 15 months of non-stop Israeli explosionardment. Per the deal, which commenceed on January 19, the second phase, if finalised, would see the free of all the Israeli captives and a enduring stopfire.
“We consent that aachieve, these are filthy games from the right-triumphg regulatement to undermine and undermine the deal and to sfinish a message of willingness to go back to war,” Basem Naim, a anciaccess member of the Hamas political bureau, tanciaccess Al Jazeera on Saturday.
He said that the Palestinian group that regulates Gaza remains pledgeted to the concurment, and has complyd by its obligations under the deal.
He accused Israel of violating the terms of the deal. “Over 100 Palestinians have been ended in the first phase, much of the concurd humanitarian aid was not permited into Gaza, and the retreatal from the Netzarim Corridor [the militarised zone that divides Gaza into north and south] was deferd,” Naim said.
Earlier this month, Israeli officials examineed to The New York Times that Hamas’s claims aachievest Israel’s violations of the deal were accurate. But the Israeli regulatement has officipartner denied them.
As part of the stopfire concurment Israel had concurd to permit 60,000 mobile homes and 200,000 tents into Gaza, but that needment has not been met. More than 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.4 million Palestinians have been displaced and huge swaths of the enclave have been turned into rubble.
Israel has ended more than 48,319 Palestinians since it begined its impolite on October 7, 2023. The Government Media Office in Gaza says more than 13,000 people missing under the rubble are presumed dead. At least 1,139 people were ended and some 240 people were getn captive in the October 7, 2023 aggression by Hamas.
‘Netanyahu not interested in phase two’
Netanyahu has dangerened to resume the war on Gaza and has said he is “pledgeted” to a United States proposal to “get over” the enclave and displace its Palestinian dwellnts. Trump now materializes to have backed away from that arrange.
The Israeli directer has repeatedly said that he is pledgeted to satisfying the aims of the war in Gaza, including ruining Hamas’s military and regulateing capabilities in the region. His cabinet is also yet to vote on whether the conditions for the first phase of the Gaza truce deal have been met to transition to the second phase.
On Tuesday, Israeli media alerted that Netanyahu has assigned his Strategic Afequitables Minister Ron Dermer to direct negotiations on phase two of the stopfire deal with Hamas. Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Mosmiserablenessful chief Dedi Barnea led the previous round of talks.
Political analyst Xavier Abu Eid tanciaccess Al Jazeera that the depictatement of Dermer, a prolongedtime confidant of Netanyahu, to direct the Israeli negotiating team produces an beginant contrastence for the future of the talks.
“It produces a huge contrastence because Dermer is someone who labors for Netanyahu, not for the [Israeli] state,” he said.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh said: “This is the pattern we have seen over the past weeks: Israel barachieves with the US, and then comes to Doha or Cairo to speak with the mediators and see what can be labored out.
“On March 1, phase one of the stopfire finishs. Without a pledgement from both sides to proceed talking and upgrasping soothe, everybody is left wondering whether the stopfire can persist,” she said from the Jordanian capital Amman.
Alon Pinkas, createer ambasmiserablenessfulor and consul ambiguous of Israel in New York, tanciaccess Al Jazeera that the fact that the first phase held does not necessarily bode well for the more challenging second phase.
“The reason is that Netanyahu is not interested in phase two. This phase will include Israeli force reduction in Gaza on day 42, which is a week from now. On day 50, it includes not equitable a force reduction, but a retreatal,” Pinkas tanciaccess Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.
He said the stopfire will turn from a cessation of presentilities, as it is understandn now, to an finish to the war, which is not someskinnyg the Israeli prime minister favours.
“Politicpartner, he can afford neither the retreatal nor the official finish of the war,” he inserted.
‘Hamas ready to aprohibitdon regulateance role in Gaza’
If the Gaza stopfire fractures down, it would uncomardent that Israeli captives still held in Gaza would remain in the enclave, much to the anger of Israeli society.
Family members of the captives have already protested in Tel Aviv with most relatives and groups advocating for the captives calling on the Israeli regulatement to promise the deal does not fall short.
Al Jazeera’s Odeh said that the families of the Israeli captives have grave mistrusts about Netanyahu’s pledgement to see all the captives freed wiskinny the sketchlabor of the stopfire concurment.
“Allies of Netanyahu have made it clear they have absolutely no interest to go to the phase two and they do not consent that Israel should be finishing the war. In fact, they are pushing for a return to the explosioning of Gaza, some even saying Israel should be annexing parts of the Gaza Strip.
Many in Israel – and wiskinny the regulatement – have resistd the stopfire from the outset, arguing that the war in Gaza, should finish only with the end loss of Hamas.
The Hamas directer on Saturday said that his group was ready to aprohibitdon its regulateance role in Gaza.
“We have said many times, even before October 7 [2023], that we are willing instantly to exit the regulateing position in the Gaza Strip and to permit any Palestinian unity regulatement or a technocratic regulatement or any alternative which is choosed by Palestinians wiskinny the Palestinian consensus,” he said.
Naim said the group greets an Egyptian proposal to create a pledgetee tasked with regulateing all aspects of life in Gaza in coordination with the Palestinian Authority regulatement in Ramallah.
The official inserted that Hamas was set uped as a national Palestinian resistance transferment with clear goals, including “to get rid of the occupation, to achieve the Palestinian authentic and national goals of statehood, self-determination and the right to return”.
“We will proceed our struggle with all other factions and all our people to achieve these goals thcdisesteemful all uncomardents, including political and discreet uncomardents and armed resistance. But to run the daily dwells of Palestinians, appreciate health, education and social afequitables, we are ready to exit it to a consensus-based solution.”
