Analysts and military experts doubted the goal and possibility of success of the 4-hour-a-day truce in the Gaza Strip, which the White House announced had been approved by Israel, and they expected the Islamic Resistance Movement to reject it (agitation).
While the bloody Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip did not stop, which resulted in more martyrs and wounded among civilians, the White House announced that Israel had agreed to a 4-hour daily truce in Gaza strip As of today, Thursday.
The White House considered these temporary truces a step in the right direction, but at the same time it indicated that the United States does not support a ceasefire in Gaza currently.
Commenting on these developments, military and strategic expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi described this step as a “malicious approach” aimed at putting pressure on Hamas, stressing that the US President joe biden He rejects the ceasefire for fear that Hamas will be given an opportunity to rearrange its affairs and manage the battle with the occupation.
The offer of these temporary truces comes – Al-Duwairi adds – at a time when the Hamas movement and the rest of the Palestinian factions are holding on to the strings of the game at the field level in the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli army has not achieved any military achievement on the ground, and Al-Duwairi expects that the Hamas movement will reject what the White House is offering. Temporary truces.
Al-Duwairi, who was speaking during the analytical pause on Al Jazeera, linked, “Gaza…what next?” The issue of temporary truces is based on Israel’s desire to evacuate the northern region of the besieged Gaza Strip and empty it of residents, which it will push towards the southern region. It is expected that Israel will increase the use of its military force in an attempt to eliminate the Hamas movement – as it claims – in this region.
For his part, the head of the Department of Political Science at Hebron University, Dr. Bilal Al-Shobaki, said that the 4-hour truce is not a truce, and what is happening is an attempt to reduce Hamas’ ceiling in indirect negotiations that are currently taking place regarding the possibility of prolonging the duration of this truce with the release of those detained by the resistance.
He added that what the United States is doing is a “misinformation operation” to reduce the pressure it is exposed to internally, and to absorb the criticism it faces from international bodies because of its position in support of Israel in its aggression against Gaza.
While the academic at Hebron University expected that Hamas would not accept the four-hour truce, Al-Shoubaki did not rule out that Israel would resort to intensifying its fire in an attempt to put more pressure on Hamas to accept the least achievements during the negotiations.
Opportunities for diplomatic work
Dr. Al-Shobaki pointed out that the Hamas movement wants to release civilians with other nationalities, especially American ones, which will expose the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu Under internal popular pressure. He said that Hamas is sending a message to Netanyahu that only the diplomatic path will return to him those detained by the Palestinian resistance.
In his reading of the American and Israeli positions, former American diplomat Charles Dunn said that Netanyahu “bite off a bite that he could not digest,” stressing that the Israelis are talking about destroying resistance tunnels and isolating areas in Gaza, but they have not reached the end in their military work, but rather they are at the beginning, and he said that the military establishment Israel lost a lot.
Dan expressed his belief that the Israelis agree to temporary truces for purely military purposes and have nothing to do with the political context, stressing that the United States is not demanding a ceasefire, but is trying to implement temporary pauses or truces to serve as opportunities for diplomatic action, taking into account what the Israelis are actually achieving on the ground. Land from a military perspective.
It is noteworthy that the developments related to the temporary truces coincide with the visit of CIA Director William Burns to Doha to discuss Qatari mediation aimed at releasing detainees in exchange for a humanitarian truce for days.
