PNN – Netanyahu, who has stalled all ceasefire and prisoner exchange plans to secure his personal interests, is extremely concerned about the developments in the Gaza war.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Al Jazeera, in recent weeks we have witnessed significant activities to resume stalled indirect negotiations between Hamas and the Israeli regime to resume a ceasefire in Gaza. The Zionist regime, and especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while sabotaging all ceasefire proposals, presented deceptive and unacceptable plans in this regard that they knew in advance would not come to fruition, and proposed impossible conditions such as the disarmament of the resistance.
Hamas’ comprehensive package for a ceasefire in Gaza
But in response to these deceptive and impossible plans of the occupying regime, the Hamas movement proposed a comprehensive package that included the simultaneous release of all Zionist prisoners, conditional on a permanent ceasefire, the complete withdrawal of the occupiers from the Gaza Strip, the opening of crossings for the entry of aid, and the beginning of the process of rebuilding the strip. Hamas also agreed to form a support committee to govern the Gaza Strip, as proposed by Egypt, consisting of non-partisan individuals and technocrats.
Hamas, through its leadership council headed by Mohammed Darwish, made trips to Doha, Ankara, and Cairo to advance negotiations based on its proposal and vision for a ceasefire; a proposal that was in line with the demands of the majority of Zionist public opinion as well as the US government, as expressed by Adam Buhler, Washington’s special envoy for Israeli prisoners of war.
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In light of these developments, Netanyahu took two actions, which are described as follows:
Discussion with the US government about the arrival of aid to Gaza: In the negotiations between Netanyahu and the US government, two ideas were raised. The first was that the Israeli army should take over the aid distribution process. This view was put forward by Bezalel Smotrich, the fascist finance minister in Netanyahu’s cabinet, so that the regime’s army would intervene in the future management of Gaza. The second idea was to use a third party, such as an American company, to distribute aid in Gaza under the supervision of the Israeli army and security services, so that the aid could be distributed along the Morag axis that separates Rafah and Khan Yunis.
There have also been ideas about turning Rafah into a tent city to house refugees under the control of the Israeli army. But the danger of implementing this idea is that it would simultaneously lead to security screening of Palestinians and indiscriminate arrests of those who come to receive aid, especially residents of the northern and central Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, this plan does not include any role for the UN and other international organizations, and it also ends their role in providing aid to Gaza. Most dangerous of all, there is the possibility of implementing a criminal scenario by the Zionist regime to drag the people of Gaza to the Morag axis under the pretext of distributing aid and then bombing and massacreing these people.
Sending the head of Mossad to Doha and the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs to Cairo
After presenting deceptive plans to send aid to the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu sent Mossad chief David Barnia to Doha and Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer to Cairo, but none of the negotiations they held yielded any practical results. Netanyahu already knew that the trip of Zionist officials to Doha and Cairo would be fruitless, but he simply wanted to claim that he was seeking negotiations in order to reduce the amount of domestic and foreign pressure against him and buy time.
But in light of this deadlock in the negotiations, Hebrew media last week quoted a senior Israeli official as saying that Netanyahu intends to continue the war until next October. The Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, who is the person closest to Netanyahu, also said that the war against Gaza will end within 12 months.
Netanyahu’s concerns about the future of war and attempts to escape forward
These statements and revelations, if true, show that Netanyahu fears many things that lie ahead, which has led him to guarantee the continuation of the aggression against Gaza until the Israeli Knesset elections, which are expected to be held in mid-2026. This is done in order to achieve one of two goals:
- Attempting to defeat the resistance and force the Palestinians to surrender, so that Netanyahu can realize his claim of absolute victory in Gaza.
- Determining the future fate of the Gaza Strip according to Netanyahu’s wishes; from reoccupying the strip to displacing the Palestinians under US support.
In fact, Netanyahu will use both scenarios, namely declaring absolute victory or justifying Zionist public opinion in ending the war, as leverage on the eve of the Israeli Knesset elections.
However, given the difficulty of controlling the course of the Gaza war until the end of this year, the situation for the Zionist regime and Netanyahu personally appears complicated and somewhat ambiguous; especially if the resistance succeeds in tiring the Tel Aviv army, which has been experiencing various crises. Currently, almost 50 percent of the Israeli army’s reserve forces are refusing to return to the war. At the same time, pressure to end the war and return Israeli prisoners from Gaza has increased, and most Zionists agree that the current war is being continued for Netanyahu’s personal and political goals.
Meanwhile, the Zionist regime continues to create tension against Syria and Lebanon. On the other hand, following the announcement of a ceasefire between the United States and Yemen, conditions have become difficult for Tel Aviv against the Yemenis, and the regime is forced to stand alone against the air blockade and missile attacks from Yemen. All of these simultaneous developments are causing the Zionist regime’s ability to control the situation to diminish day by day, and the Zionists are finding themselves in the midst of an indefinite war with unknown consequences.