People keep talking, but the SAME Issue remains in Gaza….
Hamas….
They ain’t leaving anytime soon….
The Palestinian foreign minister has described the UN security council resolution endorsing Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza as a necessary first step on a long road towards peace, even as Hamas rejected it as a form of international guardianship with which it will not cooperate.
Arab state leaders who have reluctantly adopted the plan said the US urgently needed to set out the composition of the proposed Palestinian technocratic committee that is to deliver services inside Gaza, as well as the leadership of the international stabilisation force (ISF), which is supposed to oversee security. Membership of the board of peace, the body that is to oversee the ISF and a Palestinian civilian police force also remains unknown.
Hamas, still dominant in Gaza, also rejected the requirement to decommission its weapons, saying that had not been part of the original agreement. “Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favour of the occupation,” the militant group said.
“Any international force, if established, should only be present at the border to separate the forces and monitor the ceasefire, and it should be under full UN supervision and act solely in coordination with the Palestinian institutions, without the occupation having any role in this.”
A British diplomat said weapon decommissioning would be the most difficult part of the process and was only likely to take place in the context of a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Many Palestinians are unhappy that the UN resolution only set out the most conditional path to a Palestinian state that brings together Gaza and the West Bank.
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Ultimately the plan’s future depends on Trump’s willingness to remain engaged, including by putting effective pressure on the Israeli government not to use the many opportunities in the resolution’s text not to withdraw from Gaza.
Much of the reaction to the UN resolution inside Israel was hostile, although Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, welcomed it, saying: “Israel extends its hand in peace and prosperity to all of our neighbours and calls on them to normalise relations with Israel.”
“We believe that President Trump’s plan will lead to peace and prosperity because it insists upon full demilitarisation, disarmament and the deradicalisation of Gaza,” including, the prime minister’s office added, receiving the remains of the deceased hostages left in Gaza “with no delay”…..
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