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Political analysts believe that the government Benjamin Netanyahu It is not actually concerned with the file of prisoners or civilian detainees in Gaza stripIt refuses to approve humanitarian truces for fear of being forced little by little to stop the war without achieving its goals, which it considers more important than anything.
According to the expert on Israeli affairs, Muhannad Mustafa, the issue of prisoners and detainees does not represent a priority for the Israeli government, despite the media interest it shows in it, because what is most important to it is preventing any ceasefire at the present time.
The Netanyahu government fears – according to Mustafa – that any humanitarian truce will lead to more truces leading to a complete cessation of the war, while it has not achieved any of its declared goals, whether in terms of eliminating… Islamic resistance movement (Hamas), or recovering prisoners and detainees through a military operation.
Mustafa believes that Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Galant in particular put military goals as a priority, because both men act based on their political interests without considering anything else.
But Mustafa believes that Israeli society understood this matter, and began to go out in demonstrations more because he no longer trusted the government – with regard to this file – expressing his conviction that the coming days will witness more protests not only over the issue of prisoners and detainees, but also because of the bill. The costly military operation that no longer has clear, real goals.
Political analyst Moin Taher supports Mustafa’s talk about the Netanyahu government’s lack of interest in the issue of prisoners and detainees, but he believes that the internal Israeli rift has not reached the point of division over the war, because what happened last October 7 (Operation Al-Aqsa Flood), turned all the Israelis into an army.
While the Hamas movement is trying to complete an exchange deal in order to temporarily stop the war to relieve pressure on the residents of the Gaza Strip and bring in aid and fuel, the Israeli side does not want to reach this point, in Taher’s opinion.
The political analyst believes that Netanyahu is well aware that Hamas has enough military prisoners to whitewash Israeli prisons in any case.
Hence – Al-Taher adds – Netanyahu does not want to complete any exchange deal, so as not to increase international pressure on him, and to fear for Hamas, because everyone knows that the military prisoners will not return without a deal that includes the Palestinian security and political prisoners, according to him.
But the matter does not stop there, in Mustafa’s opinion, because Israel is experiencing a military and political dilemma, because it raised the ceiling of its military goals – eliminating Hamas and recovering prisoners and detainees – and did not achieve any of them within 40 days, and therefore the longer the war lasts, the greater the pressure on it internally. Externally, support for it declined.
Therefore, Netanyahu is trying to evade the issue of approving any truce, and refuses to bring in any aid except with his approval and under his supervision, so that his strategic goal of suffocating the residents of Gaza and pushing them to migrate towards the Sinai Peninsula is not affected.
What is strange about this war – as Mustafa says – is that Netanyahu wants to create a new type of humanitarian truce, which is a truce for a price, meaning that he wants to release a group of prisoners and detainees in exchange for every truce, without himself releasing any Palestinian.
Al-Tahir agrees with this proposal, stressing that what Israel is doing represents pressure on the population, and not on Hamas, which is still resisting and throwing rockets, in addition to the fact that the war is still practically in the northern region, regardless of the continuous bombing of the south, according to him.
Al-Taher pointed out that, according to the data, Hamas “has two brigades in the northern region that are waging resistance so far, while there are at least three other brigades still in the southern regions, meaning they have not entered the confrontation yet.”
Regarding Israel’s failure to submit to international pressure demanding the adoption of a truce and the introduction of aid, Al-Tahir said, “This reflects the state of arrogance that Netanyahu is experiencing, which will not be broken except by starting from the outcomes of the recent Arab-Islamic summit, which approved work to break the siege.”
Al-Taher concluded that opening the Rafah crossing will never happen except by forming convoys that include Arab and Muslim foreign ministers, United Nations officials, diplomatic missions and international organizations to break the siege, because Tel Aviv will not face the world alone, stressing that any talk about opening the crossing in another way means that the situation will remain as it is. It is.
