Gaza Genocide17 August, 20263 min read
Mediators Blame Israel for Obstructing Gaza Peace After Netanyahu Rejects Trump Roadmap
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Mediators blame Israel for obstructing Gaza peace after Netanyahu rejected Trump's roadmap. Kushner presses for ceasefire and Hamas disarmament in negotiations with Netanyahu and Hamas.
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Mediators blame Israel
Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, mediators along with the United States, blamed Israel for obstructing efforts to end the war in Gaza after the Government of Benjamín Netanyahu rejected the peace roadmap backed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The La Tribuna de Ciudad Real report said the foreign ministers of the three mediating countries, in a joint communiqué signed also by Jordania, Arabia Saudí, Pakistán, Emiratos Árabes Unidos e Indonesia, stated: "Este rechazo confirma que Israel es ahora responsable de obstaculizar los esfuerzos por lograr la paz en Gaza".
It said the rejection came after Netanyahu rejected a plan of 15 points announced by Trump and published by the Junta de Paz to advance toward the second phase of the ceasefire, and Netanyahu reiterated that Israel would not abandon Gaza until Hamás is disarmed.
In parallel, La Tribuna de Ciudad Real reported that Jared Kushner met in an unannounced visit with Egyptian President Abdelfatah al Sisi while contacts with Hamás intensified for implementation of the 15-point plan.
Insular FM reported that Hamas gave a positive assessment to U.S. assurances that Israeli forces would withdraw from the Gaza Strip in parallel with Palestinian militias disarmament, framing the dispute over the order of disarmament and withdrawal as a key obstacle to implementing Trump’s plan.
Kushner meets both sides
Insular FM said U.S. envoy Jared Kushner met in Cairo on Sunday with Hamas’s chief negotiator, Jalil al-Hayya, as negotiations aimed to consolidate the cessation of hostilities and define conditions for the next stage of the agreement. It reported that Hamas insisted Israel must fully meet the terms established for the first phase of the ceasefire, and that the movement said the assurances from Washington represent a commitment to the negotiated roadmap. The La Nueva España report described a different dynamic in Jerusalem, saying the United States would have accepted that Israel continue to attack Gaza indefinitely and would not have to withdraw its troops until Hamas is fully disarmed.
It also quoted Israeli Interior Minister and police chief Itamar Ben-Gvir saying: "30 or 40" Palestinians in Gaza would "need to be killed every night". El País reported that after a three-hour interview, Kushner gave Netanyahu the green light to continue bombarding, and that the Israeli prime minister said reconstruction of devastated Gaza would only begin after Hamas and other armed factions’ "disarmament and demilitarization."
Disarmament, withdrawal, reconstruction
The DW report said Hamas filed a request with the Peace Board to compel Israel to accept the plan for a ceasefire in Gaza after a meeting in Egypt with U.S. envoy Jared Kushner. DW reported that Hamas urged the Peace Board and mediator countries to "force the occupation (Israel) to approve the second-phase roadmap" funded by the United States. It said the roadmap requires Hamas to hand over weapons to a Palestinian technocratic committee supervising daily operations, while Israeli forces cease attacks and begin pulling out of Gaza, and it noted that the committee has not yet entered Gaza.
El País reported that the key issue is how long the United States and the Peace Board will tolerate Israel’s breach of obligations undertaken when they signed in October an agreement that recovered the last hostages, and it said Israel continued daily bombardments obstructing reconstruction and hindering humanitarian aid to a Gaza without water and electricity. DW also said Hamas conditioned the handover of its heaviest weapons on the creation of a Palestinian state, which the current Israeli government rejects, leaving reconstruction and the deployment of international forces to separate Israeli forces from zones controlled by the committee suspended.