A temporary 42-day truce. Six weeks without raids in exchange for the release of the hostages. “We will see”. But what is certain is that the objective of eliminating Hamas remains primary. The permanent ceasefire, evoked in “phase two” of the roadmap relaunched by US President Joe Biden last Friday, is excluded by Israel for now, and is the stumbling block that could ultimately wreck everything again. But the one opened yesterday by Benyamin Netanyahu is a glimmer of hope.
Speaking in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, the prime minister said that “the war will be stopped in order to return those kidnapped, then we will discuss the rest”. And he specified that the scheme presented by Biden “is partial, there are other details that have not been made public”. “We are working in many ways to get our kidnapped people back but we maintain the objectives of the war”, labeling as “false” the fact that in the proposal there is “a ceasefire without our conditions being met”.
Biden’s roadmap was “fully approved” last night also by the G7 leaders: “We will support it” is the joint declaration. And Hamas has also shown signs of opening. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry announced it yesterday morning from Cairo, even if the formula is vague: «Hamas has positively welcomed the ceasefire proposal in Gaza and now we await Israel’s response». But at the same time, Hamas sources said they had informed mediators from Qatar and Egypt that they believed an official guarantee from the American side was necessary that Israel would respect all the conditions of the agreement, starting with the request for a ceasefire. long-lasting. A guarantee that at the moment, faced with Israel’s determination to eradicate Hamas at its roots, no one can give, not even Biden.
Furthermore, Netanyahu is between two fires: on one side the families of the hostages who insist that he accept the US roadmap to bring the kidnapped home, on the other the ultra-right ministers – Itamar Ben Gvir (Jewish Power) and Bezalel Smotrich (Zionism religious) – ready to leave the majority coalition and put the government in crisis if operations in Gaza stop. Both accuse the prime minister – if he accepted the agreement – of underselling the purpose of the war. However, Bibi received the support of the opposition leader, Yair Lapid: “I offered Netanyahu a protection net if the radical right were to decide to leave the majority in conflict with the agreement.”
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