The plan presented by Biden to end the war in Gaza and that could lead to the fall of Netanyahu

The president of United States, Joe Bidenrevealed on Friday a three-phase Israeli plan to end nearly eight months of war between Israel and Hamas in Loop. In a statement at the White House, the president noted that “this is truly a decisive moment.” Although the Palestinian Islamists assessed the proposal as “positive”, on the other side, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not committed to signing it, as he is the subject of strong pressure from his government partners who reject any truce.

Biden maintained that Hamas “no longer capable” of carrying out another large-scale attack against Israel like the one that occurred on October 7 and urged the Israelis and the militants to reach an agreement to free the hostages and achieve a prolonged ceasefire.

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“Hamas says it wants a ceasefire. “This agreement is an opportunity to show if they really mean it,” he emphasized. Biden.

The American president made the statement while on the battlefield the Israeli army operates in the center of the city of Rafahin the south of Gaza, with the purpose, he assures, of finishing off the last battalions of Hamas.

After the Israeli roadmap was made public, the office of Netanyahu He insisted that his country will continue with the offensive until it achieves “all its objectives,” including the destruction of Hamas’s military and government capabilities.

The three-phase agreement

He Israel’s plan and revealed by Biden would begin with a immediate and temporary ceasefire and would move towards a permanent end to the war and the subsequent reconstruction of Gaza.

The American newspaper The New York Times explained in detail what this roadmap consists of:

• In the first phaseboth sides would respect a six-week ceasefire. Israel would withdraw from Gaza’s main population centers and several hostages would be released, among them women, the elderly and the injured. The hostages they would be exchanged for the release of hundreds of Palestinian detainees. The aid would begin to flow into Gaza, in order to reach up to about 600 trucks a day. Also hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians would be allowed to return to their homes in northern Loop. Most Palestinians fled the north following Israel’s mass evacuation order before the ground invasion began. At this point, Israel and Hamas would continue negotiating to reach a permanent ceasefire. If the talks last more than six weeks, the first phase of the truce It will continue until they reach an agreement, he said Biden.

• In the second phaseonce a permanent ceasefire has been agreed, Israel would completely withdraw from Loop. All Israeli hostages would be released remaining alive, including male soldiers, and in exchange more Palestinian prisoners would be released.
• In the third phase, Hamas would return the remains of hostages who had died. Debris would be removed and a three- to five-year Gaza reconstruction period would beginsupported by the United States, Europe and international institutions.

Nowhere in the agreement does it talk about the future of Hamas and whether or not he will continue to govern Loopsomething that since the beginning of the war has been unacceptable for Israel.

In Israel It is believed that the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces provided for in the agreement could allow Hamas sing victory and reconstitute.

Netanyahu between a rock and a hard place

On Monday, Netanyahu contradicted Biden. “The statement that we agreed to a Stop the fire without our conditions being met is not true. (…) The proposal that Biden presented is incomplete”he stated before the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament).

“The war will stop to recover the hostages and then we will have talks. There are details that the American president did not present to the public”he added.

After his intervention in the parliamentary committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs, Netanyahu He published a message on his social networks in which he assured that the Government is working “in countless ways to return our kidnapped people.”

For his part, the spokesperson for NetanyahuDavid Mencer said Monday that What was presented by Biden was a “partial” draft.

In Israel, the media of that country wonders to what extent the speech of Biden and some key details of the plan were coordinated with the Netanyahu.

What was revealed by Biden is rejected by the far-right coalition partners of Netanyahuwho consider it a capitulation to Hamas.

The Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrichthreatened to leave the Executive if the prime minister accepts the truce.

The EFE agency also indicated that the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvirreported that he has gone to the office twice Netanyahu to study the proposal and they have not let him see it. “If you sign an irresponsible agreement that ends the war without the collapse of Hamas, Jewish Power (Ben Gvir party) will dissolve the Government”, he warned the prime minister.

As the AP agency reports, what the radical partners of Netanyahu is to continue the war, completely reoccupy Gaza and build Jewish settlements in that Palestinian territory.

So things are, Netanyahu is at a crossroads, because if it finally rejects the agreement it could deepen Israel’s international isolation, worsen ties with the Biden administration and expose it to internal accusations of having abandoned the hostages to save its own skin. And if he signs the pact, he could be abandoned by his partners, which would cause the fall of his government and the advancement of the elections.

The AP agency highlighted that the current government of Netanyahuformed at the end of 2022 after five consecutive elections, It is the most nationalistic and religious in the history of Israel. Months before the war, this Executive promoted policies that strengthened the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, deepened the dependence of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community on state subsidies and launched a reform of the judicial system with which a large part of the citizenry does not agree. agreement.