Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden do n’t appear to be on the same page about a proposed agreement to end the ongoing battle in the Gaza Strip.
Biden stated on Friday that” Israel has offered a complete new plan” for a peace in the Gaza Strip. In exchange for the launch of citizens and Israeli forces taken prisoner on October 7, the U.S. president described a three-phase agreement that would see Israeli forces withdraw from the Gazan populace centers, allow more humanitarian aid to enter the area, and help Palestinians to return to their homes.
However, the” Israeli” program that Biden outlined may not be what the Jewish leader really intends to do. Netanyahu refuted any suggestion that the peace plan his government has proposed may fall quick of his war aim of destroying Hamas during a meeting with the Knesset, the Jewish legislature, on Monday.
” The claims that we have agreed to a peace without our problems being met are incorrect”, Netanyahu , told , the Knesset.
The Gaza Plan Biden Described
Trump detailed the alleged Jewish peace plan during an unexpected White House , speech , on Friday, May 31.
The senator described a three- stage proposal. The second phase, he said, did last at least six weeks, and see” a full and complete ceasefire, a withdrawal of Jewish forces from all occupied areas of Gaza, a release of a number of hostages— including women, the old, the wounded — in exchange for the release of hundreds of Arab prisoners”.
In accordance with phase one, Israel did also permit up to 600 truckloads of food to travel to the Gaza Strip every day.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees ( UNRWA )  , estimates , a daily average of 500 truckloads of supplies was needed to sustain the Gaza Strip’s population before the current conflict. According to UNRWA, 1, 479 cars, or 47.7 vehicles per day, crossed the Gaza Strip in May through the area crossings.
Biden claimed that step two is reliant on the success of stage one. He claimed that as long as both parties continue to negotiate, the ceasefire and another stage one terms may continue after six weeks.
According to Biden, phase two did bring an end to the current conflicts in Gaza. He stated that Hamas did also release all of the group of male Jewish men who had been taken as prisoners of war.
Lastly, Biden said phase three of the program may view” a big reconstruction” start in the Gaza Strip.
Biden Speech Alarms Netanyahu Coalition
In his remarks on Friday, Biden used the term” Hamas” to suggest that it would continue to exist after the current conflict.
In an interview with Biden, Biden claimed that Israeli forces have “devastated Hamas” over the past eight months of fighting and have rendered them incapacent to launch an attack like they did in Israel on October 7. However, Biden chose to describe a post-Hamas Gaza Strip rather than saying that only that strategy “does not allow Hamas to re-arm.”
Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister of Israel, announced on Saturday that he had spoken with Netanyahu and made it clear that he opposed any peace that would allow Hamas to continue.
In a social media post on Saturday, Smotrtich said,” I have spoken with the Prime Minister and made it clear to him that I will not be part of a government that will agree to the proposed outline and end the war without destroying Hamas and bringing back all the abductees.”
Smotrich vowed to demand that Israeli forces keep fighting until Hamas is defeated and that” there is the creation of a completely different security reality in Gaza and Lebanon.”
The proposal that Biden submitted last week was also rejected by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
In a Monday , statement, Ben- Gvir said Netanyahu gave his assurances that he had n’t agreed to a peace plan without the defeat of Hamas, and that Biden had simply mischaracterized the plan he had put forward. Netanyahu has n’t yet disclosed the exact draft of the peace plan that the Israeli prime minister had communicated to Biden, despite the fact that Ben-Gvir pressed him to do so.
If the Israeli prime minister had agreed to a “promiscuous deal” that would end the fighting without bringing Hamas to an end, Ben-Gvir claimed that he and his Otzma Yehudit ( Jewish Power ) party would withdraw from Netanyahu’s ruling coalition. Otzma Yehudit pulling out of the Netanyahu coalition could bring on the coalition’s collapse.
Ben- Gvir recently suggested Israel should not only continue its military operations in the Gaza Strip, but , occupy the territory , after the fighting ends.
Speaking to members of the press on Monday, U. S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller , insisted , that the peace deal Biden described does indeed describe the terms set by the Israeli government, but that” there are certain people in the Israeli cabinet, in the Israeli government, who would probably not look too kindly on this”.
This article was originally , published , by , FreeBase News , and is reprinted with permission.
