The “peace plan” for Gaza presented by Donald Trump and endorsed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the hands of Hamas’ surviving managers, who received him from Egyptian and Qatarini officials. They have 72 hours to evaluate it and give an answer. Previously, a high Hamas official had declared to the BBC that the group was willing to evaluate any proposal that could end the war in Gaza, but had underlined that any agreement should have safeguarded the Palestinian interests, guarantee the complete retreat of Israel from Gaza and end the war.
Will 72 hours be enough? A source referred to the AFP news agency that “discussions could take several days due to the complexity of communications between the members of the leadership and the movements, especially after the Israeli aggression in Doha”.
Keep out of consultations, in fact Hamas is faced with an ultimatum. If he accepts, Israel offers the immediate termination of the fighting and the release of 250 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment, in addition to 1,700 inhabitants of Gaza who had been arrested after the massacre of 7 October 2023. Hamas must guarantee in exchange for the release of the 20 Israeli hostages still in life and the corpses of the over twenty hostages that are believed to be dead.
If Hamas does not accept the plan, the United States will let Israel “do what he has to do”, that is, the war to the bitter end “to complete the task of destroying the threat of Hamas”, said Trump.
The plan offers the amnesty and the possibility of leaving Gaza to the members of Hamas who renounce weapons. In fact, Trump and Netanyahu ask the Islamist movement to free the hostages and deliver the weapons, to give up their influence in the public life of Gaza and to dissolve, perhaps with the help of mediatory countries such as Qatar. If Hamas does not accept, it will continue and perhaps the torment for the civilian population of Gaza will worsen.
According to the 20 points of the plan, what would be the future of Gaza? There is an international “stabilization” force created by the United States and the Arab countries, which would take control of the safety of the enclave, guaranteeing the demilitarization of the Palestinian armed factions. Fortunately, the bizarre idea of the “Riviera” imagined by the Palazzinaro who became president, who would have entailed the forced displacement of the Palestinians, is discarded.
According to Trump’s plan, at the end of hostilities, Gaza will be governed by a “technocratic” leadership of the Palestinians, not affiliated to any political faction. As he points out To Jazeera“This Palestinian leadership will not be chosen by the Palestinian people, but by a new international body that will supervise the implementation of the peace plan. Trump has said that this organization, called ‘Peace Council’, will have the task of guaranteeing the success of the agreement and bringing together the main regional and international leaders”. Trump himself will supervise everything and, given his confusing management of international dossiers, the news does not seem reassuring. At his side there would be the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In the White House plan, reference is made to the creation of a Palestinian state, but only in very vague terms. The plan suggests that, if the Palestinian authority based in Ramallah was reformed, “the conditions for a credible path towards self -determination and the creation of a Palestinian state could finally be created”. So it would be in any case of a very long and unknown path.
In short, the plan presents itself as a compromise from fragile architecture, but at the moment it is the only alternative to the continuation of the horrors of the war. Also for this reason he collected the support of the international community. In the front row, Arab and Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar and Egypt.
While waiting for Hamas’ response, it remains to be seen how the most extremist government allies will welcome Netanyahu on his return to Israel. To keep them at Bada Netanyahu, as it reveals Times of IsraeL, “has obtained fundamental changes to the Trump plan, slowing down and limiting the withdrawal of the IDF da Gaza”. The newspaper Haaretz provides elections by 2026: “Without annexation of the West Bank, without ‘encouragement to emigration’ but rather the opposite, without the creation of settlements in Gaza and, on the other hand, with an almost complete retreat from the strip and a path to a Palestinian state, the dissolution of the coalition becomes a realistic option. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the two angels of the sabotage, They will be able to justify their stay in the government.
