What is the case within the talks about troop deduction | EUROtoday

Negotiations on an armistice within the Gaza Strip have been caught. While the diplomatic efforts had been continued on the weekend, Israel and the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas lately met with mutual blame. An Israeli authorities worker accused the terrorist group of hindering the oblique negotiations by means of lack of willingness to compromise and a “campaign of psychological warfare. From the Palestinian side, the conversations did not move because Israel does not show any accommodation on the question of a troop deduction.

According to the corresponding reports of diplomats, questions of the withdrawal of the Israeli military and the corresponding cards presented by the Israeli side are “at present the decisive level of dispute”. Israel demands ongoing presence in the buffer zones to be set up. A diplomat that was taught about the status of the negotiations told the FAZ that Israel wanted to build one to two kilometers wide buffer zone on the border with the Gaza Strip. Hamas demands a width of 700 meters.

Even more controversial is the Israeli demand for a two to three kilometer -wide buffer zone north of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip. The army set up the so-called Morag corridor-named after a former settlement in the Gaza Strip. It runs between the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah and separates the latter from the rest of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated at the time that he wanted to increase the pressure on Hamas. The city of Rafah was largely destroyed by the military, the residents were driven out.

Not solely at Hamas these plans encounter reluctance. In precept, diplomats confirmed a report by the information portal “Axios” about a meeting in the White House last week. A negotiator from Qatar and Steve Witkoff, special representative of President Donald Trump, had made Netanyahu’s most important consultant Ron Demer clear that the Israeli demands were a pipe crepe. According to “Axios”, Witkoff said the plans for continuing crew of large parts of the Gaza Strip and reminded of a “Smotrich plan”. The extremist finance minister publicly calls for the “whole destruction” of the Gaza Strip and the expulsion of the population. The American government had tried to use the dynamics according to the ceasefire between Israel and Iran to reach an end to violence in the Gaza Strip. This has now been fizzled out, it said of diplomats.

Accordingly, the negotiations are also difficult by new Israeli government for the region around Rafah, even if they are not officially part of the negotiations. Much of the population of the Gaza Strip is to be spent there – in a “humanitarian metropolis” that is to be built on the ruins. According to Israeli press reports, their facility would cost the equivalent of around 3.7 billion euros. Defense Minister Israel Katz explained last Monday, initially the approximately 600,000 Palestinians were to be relocated to the al-Mawasi coastal area to avoid the Israeli attacks. In the long term, however, all about 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip should be concentrated in this facility, said Katz. After you have been checked for Hamas and have entered the area, you shouldn’t leave it anymore-unless you leave the Gaza strip. The Israeli army will guard the area, but will not be responsible for the care of people.

Officially, the government as the goal of ending the control of Hamas through the population through the spatial separation. However, the plan has caused controversial reactions in Israel. Critics speak of a “focus camp” or a “ghetto” in which millions of Palestinians should be forced. The army leadership also apparently has concerns – in the past few days, Israeli media reported on loud arguments between the chief of general staff Eyal Zamir and ministers, in particular the settler movement. Some believe that the establishment of this zone on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip is a first step for the expulsion of the Palestinians from the area and the re -establishment of Jewish settlements.

Diplomatic sources mentioned on Sunday that negotiations on an armistice had not but arrived within the remaining part, however there have been approaches in another controversial factors. According to the present standing, the discharge of the hostages dragged by Hamas is to be accompanied by a gradual Israeli set off from the Gaza Strip. In addition, negotiations on a everlasting finish of the battle ought to start on the primary day when a ceasefire comes into drive. Hamas needs worldwide ensures that non permanent ceasefire will proceed to use even when there isn’t any settlement on the finish of the battle after 60 days.