“PROGRESS IN THE PEACE TALKS IN GAZA?

Has there been “progress” in the talks held in Doha to agree to a global plan that will allow for the long-awaited peace in Gaza?

The Israeli press affirms that it is, but the government of Benjamin Netanyahu does not confirm it and the strikes continue on the Palestinian enclave.

Mediators attend these conversations in the Qatari capital. Qatar and Egypt, and the three chiefs intelligence of the United States, Israel and Egypt.

The negotiation issue concerns the peace plan presented long ago by the president of the United States, Joe Biden; a project that has undergone modifications due to pressure from Israel, while Hamas has already accepted it according to sources from the radical Palestinian group.

The content of this peace plan, which consists of three phases, has been known for a long time. The first is a six-week humanitarian pause, during which Hamas would release women, children and wounded hostages, as well as the bodies of prisoners who have died. Israel, for its part, would release a certain number of Palestinian prisoners.

In the second phase, a ceasefire would be negotiated, which could be temporary or total, which would constitute a decisive step for peace. Hamas would release all the hostages it still has in its possession. There could be 90 or 100, although not even Hamas knows, according to one of its spokespersons.

In the third phase, once a definitive ceasefire has been reached, the reconstruction of Gaza, which is at least 50 percent destroyed, would be studied. The project of who will govern the enclave after the war would also be examined. Netanyahu maintains that it must be Israel and Tsahal forces will play a fundamental role. Other members of the Jewish government believe that Palestinians have the right to participate in that government, excluding members of Hamas.

The United States maintains that Gaza should be governed by the Palestinians and excludes Israeli intervention, but as always happens with Netanyahu, he completely refuses.

In any case, everything seems to indicate that we are moving forward in the peace process, although quite slowly. On the other hand, what seems to move faster is the final solution regarding the release of the hostages, who have been suffering months and months of captivity despite being innocent in this conflict.

The horror of the genocide was highlighted again this Thursday when the discovery of 60 Palestinian bodies in a neighborhood of the capital Gaza was announced.