Arabs and Muslim leaders are pressing for Hamas to accept the plan for Gaza presented this week by US President Donald Trump, stressing that the need to end hostilities outperforms the details. At the same time, Gulf states and other regional players see in the deal An opportunity to shield their national interests, promote their financial plans and reinforce their links with Washington.
Although some of the 20 points of the proposal are different from what Trump had agreed with these leaders in New York, everyone is united in favor of the target to end Israel’s military operation in the damaged Palestinian enclave, according to sources cited by Bloomberg.
Arabs and Muslim leaders believe Israel’s campaign in Gaza after Hamas’ attacks in October 2023, as well as the attempt to enforce military hegemony in the Middle East are a threat to their national securitythe same sources say. For almost two years, Israel has been seeking to destroy Hamas, while destroying Gaza and causing a humanitarian crisis, with images of Palestinian dying, starving to be broadcast around the world.
In the meantime, the conflict has spread, with Israeli businesses in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and direct rocket exchanges with Iran. Last month, Israel hit Qatar in an attempt to kill Hamas executives there. On Monday, as part of the US peacekeeping initiative, Netanyahu made a joint telephone conversation with Trump to the Prime Minister of Qatar and expressed his “deep regret” for the attack. The attack had killed a Qatarian security guard and angered the emirate, which has taken on a key role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas.
A senior official in the area, who was in New York last week and was fully informed of Trump’s meeting with Arabs and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, said that the plan announced by Trump was expected to be expected. The official avoided in detail, but stressed that it is important not to lose the profits for the Palestinians and the Arabic and Muslim states, including the termination of displacement projects by Gaza residents.
The 20 -point plan does not answer some questions, especially those concerning the transitional governance of Gaza and the development of an international stabilization force for the training and support of the Palestinian police forces. However, the fact that it provides for the end of conflict, ensuring that the Palestinians will remain and contribute to the rebuilding of Gaza, as well as the complete withdrawal of Israel from the enclave, constitute significant achievements, according to the same official.
These are the reasons why the plan was immediately approved Monday night by the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt, according to a source in Riyadh.
Hamas, therefore, theoretically has little room rather than accepting the agreement and starting to get involved in the process, especially as this is the desire of the states closest to it, namely Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, the official said. This would require the organization to be disarmed, a request that has been rejecting over time, although the plan provides amnesty for those who are “committed to peaceful coexistence” and a safe passage for those who want to leave.
Qatar Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulraman bin Jasim al -Thanihe said that his country and Egypt handed over the plan to Hamas on Monday night. A delegation of the organization, with the support of Iran, told Qatar, Egypt and Turkey officials in Doha on Tuesday that it is carefully investigating the proposal and calling for clarifications on certain technical issues, according to Bloomberg sources.
Hamas is preparing her response as she completes consultations with other Palestinian organizations on the plan, the source said. On Tuesday, Trump said Hamas, which has been described as a terrorist organization by the US, the European Union and other countries, has “three or four days” to decide.
There are goals “starting to be implemented, namely the end of war,” Sheikh Mohammed said in an interview with Al-Jazeera this week. “There are issues that need clarification and others that certainly require discussion and negotiation.”
The Qatar leader said his country and representatives of other Arab and Muslim states “worked with the American side” after meeting with Trump in New York to incorporate their comments into the Gaza plan and that some were “taken into account”. Others were “not taken, of course,” Sheikh Mohammed added.
He did not give specific details, but stressed that he hopes everyone to see and approach the “constructive” plan to “find a solution that will stop bloodshed”.
Some points in the proposal are “unclear” and “cannot be left blurred”, such as who will run the international stabilization force (ISF), how its responsibilities will be determined and how much it will remain in Gaza, according to Ha Hellyer, a senior researcher at the Royal United Services Institute. In the proposal, the ISF is described as a “long -term solution for internal security”.
Other issues concern the timetable of Israeli retirement and who will decide when the Palestinian Authority will have been sufficiently reformed to take control of Gaza, Hellyer said, without missing the blurry wording around the Palestinian state, a major request from the Arabic and Muslim countries. The Palestinian Authority is currently controlling parts of the West Bank, but has no power in Gaza.
“This complex of Arab and Muslim countries will approve the plan anyway, simply because they will consider that any plan that at least reduces the scale of the crisis is better than to continue its devastating war,” Hellyer said.
The proposal stipulates that “complete humanitarian aid” should enter Gaza and distributed by UN organizations “without interference from both parties”.
The main priority for oil -rich states is to move away from conflict and focus on their ambitious financial and investment plans. Regional leaders also believe that their support and contribution to the implementation of a Peaceful Agreement on Gaza promoted Trump will enhance their personal relationship with the US president and promote their interests in Washington.
“One could call it Trump’s plan, but it all started with Abu Dhabi,” said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a researcher at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, referring to Dubai, referring to the decisive role in the decisive role. In the formation of the 20 -point plan and the construction of consensus with other states in the region.
UAE Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed, met with Netanyahu in New York before the project was launched.
Another possible big winner, since the plan for Gaza is accepted and implemented, is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ankara’s involvement reinforces the close personal relationship between him and Trump and gives Turkey influence in Palestinian affairs and a prominent role in rebuilding Gaza. It also serves Turkish interests, especially in neighboring Syria, according to Aslı AydıntaÅŸbaÅŸ, director of the Turkey Project at Brookings Institution in Washington.
“Trump’s special relationship with Erdogan makes it clear that he considers Turkey a key partner for security in the region,” he said.
Source :Skai
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