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Israel’s Gaza Peace Plan Perversion

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This week marked one month since Donald Trump got both Hamas and Israel to agree to a 20-point peace plan for Gaza. Phase one was supposed to cease the fighting, see the exchange of hostages, flood the Strip with aid, and begin the process of Israel withdrawing its troops from Gaza.

By all accounts it’s not going so well. While the exchanges of live and dead hostages continue, the aid is not getting into the war- and famine-plagued population, which is now suffering from conditions not heard of since the turn of the last century, like scabies and scurvy (and much worse), as tons of uncollected refuge piles up and all drinking water is contaminated.

Meanwhile, according to Al-Jazeera, the Israel government has violated the ceasefire 282 times as of Nov 11.

Israel has shot at civilians 88 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 12 times, bombed Gaza 124 times, and demolished people’s properties on 52 occasions, according to Al Jazeera.

Israel still occupies 58% percent of the Strip and is hardening its presence behind the “yellow line” with what looks like permanent structures. Israeli-backed militias continue to skirmish with Hamas. News of talks about the second phase have dwindled,and Hamas seems no closer to disarmament or giving up governance, yet. This puts the progress of the agreement at a virtual standstill, since Israel has insisted that Hamas disarm before it leaves the territory.

Americans meanwhile have been standing up a multinational Civil-Military Coordination Center on the ground to help oversee the mandated flow of international humanitarian and security assistance into Gaza, and to monitor the ceasefire agreement. Details are scarce. Israeli and American media have reported that the Israelis are being sidelined a bit due to frustration with the fact that they have only let in a fraction of the aid that was agreed upon in Trump’s plan.

Meanwhile there are reports that Arab nations in the region will not participate in an international stabilization force planned for Gaza (even if it gets a UN blessing) because the conditions are too chaotic and violent in the strip today. There are also rumors of the U.S. building a base at the center, which is 20 miles outside of Gaza, and housing American troops there, a story that was quickly denied by the Pentagon.

If Washington was sidelining or pressuring Israel, it has yet to have an effect, and time is of the essence as more and more Palestinians are in mortal danger, if not by direct Israeli attacks but unsafe buildings at risk of collapse, disease, lack of food, medicine, and proper health care. More than 69,000 Palestinians have died in the war — that we know of — and this number is likely much, much higher and growing.

Here to talk about the deal, its failures and what might be next are my two Quincy Institute colleagues, Annelle Sheline and Khaled Elgindy. Annelle is a research fellow in the Middle East program, and Khaled Khaled Elgindy is a new senior fellow at Quincy and an adjunct instructor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

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