If they do NOT give up their arms?
And Israel does NOT keep hunting them with attack’s?
Things are NOT gonna progress….
Trump’s Peace Plan IS STUCK….
A International Security Force for Gaza?
When 10-year-old Bayan Al-Ankah was fatally shot in the head by the Israeli military while in a displaced persons camp in Gaza last week, according to her family, she became one of several hundred Palestinians killed during a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Mediators Qatar and Egypt worry that the truce is threatened by near-daily Israeli attacks in Gaza.
The continued viability of the U.S.-backed ceasefire in Gaza hinges on two crucial next steps: the deployment of an international force in Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas.
But countries involved in this key phase of the ceasefire are still debating fundamental details about how to proceed — and the U.S. goal of having international forces in Gaza by early 2026 faces challenges.
Countries do not want to disarm Hamas by force
A U.S. State Department document this month obtained by NPR lays out the Trump administration’s vision for the international troops: to be “supporting the demilitarization of Gaza, dismantling terrorist infrastructure” and “decommissioning weapons used by terrorists.”
But many countries say they will refuse to send troops to confront Hamas over its weapons.
The United Nations Security Council last month mandated international troops to operate in Gaza through the end of 2027, but the exact role of these forces remains unclear.
The U.S. convened representatives of dozens of countries in the Qatari capital this week to discuss plans for the International Stabilization Force, or ISF. It was only a planning meeting, with no countries yet formally committing troops, according to a U.S. official who spoke anonymously in order to discuss the closed-door meeting…
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Israel objects to Turkey’s participation in the ISF, viewing it as an adversary with strong sympathy for Hamas. Israel has also said it will not withdraw troops from inside Gaza until the territory is demilitarized.
Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari says there are disagreements between countries about when to take what steps. He says Qatar is encouraging the sides to take concurrent steps toward Hamas’ disarmament and Israeli troop withdrawal.
“Sequencing is the issue,” he said. “When does disarmament happen? How does it happen? … Every lack of decision on a lot of these issues provides time for the ceasefire to collapse.”….
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Hamas welcomes an international force, but only as a peacekeeping buffer
Hamas says it would welcome the ISF as a peacekeeping force in Gaza and that it has long agreed to give up governance of the territory to a Palestinian technocratic committee. But Naim says the ISF should only be used as a buffer to separate between Israeli forces and Palestinians. Naim says any international forces should not be inside Palestinian population centers of Gaza.
Israel has been openly arming rival gangs and clans opposed to Hamas in Gaza, raising questions around whether Hamas would give up its light arms in addition to rockets and weapons that could reach Israel….
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Aid agencies, like the Norwegian Refugee Council and Medical Aid for Palestinians, say even in the ceasefire Israel is blocking aid urgently needed for people to survive winter. A severe storm flooded Gaza in recent days, blowing away people’s flimsy tarp shelters and tents. Families say they’re freezing in the cold with no alternative shelter….
image….Dirty water pools near the tents of displaced families after a storm made landfall in Gaza City, flooding tents and destroying thousands of makeshift shelters on Dec. 11.
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