Gaza fire break threatens to fail: Israel's new conditions

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A fragile agreement between Israel and Hamas is on the brink, after Humanitarian aid blocked in the Gaza strip. This was done in response to the rejection of Hamas to agree to a new Israeli proposal, which provided for a new ceasefire without an obligation to terminate war or complete troops.

allegations and tensions between Israel and Hamas

Hamas has accused Israel to violate the agreement and described the decision to stop humanitarian aid as "cheap blackmail" and "war crimes".

After the return of four corpses last week, there are still nine -and -fifty hostages in Gaza. According to Israeli authorities, 24 of them should be alive.

auxiliary groups and the United Nations have sharply criticized the announcement of Israel to stop help. Egypt, as an intermediary in the ceasefire agreement, said that it was "decided by the politicization of humanitarian aid and their exploitation as a blackmail tool".

Details of the agreement

The ceasefire agreement provides for three phases. The first phase came into force on January 19 and lasted 42 days before it expired last weekend. This phase should release 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and an inflow of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Stripes.

At the end of the first phase, Hamas released 38 hostages over 39 days. Israel, on the other hand, left 1,737 Palestinian prisoners, including 120 women and children. Many were convicted of serious crimes, including murder, the majority were in prison.

The Israeli armed forces also retired to the border regions to Gaza and left all urban centers and an important corridor that shared the close -up in half.

Current developments and Israel’s point of view

Israel would like to extend the first phase of the agreement by another 42 days in order to continue to exchange hostages, living and deceased, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoner and increase the auxiliary flow to Gaza - but without any obligation to finalize war.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the proposed expansion proposal, which would lead to Ramadan and the Jewish Passah through the Islamic month, was brought in by Steve Witkoff, Trump's Middle East,. Passah ends in mid -April.

A word from Witkoff or the Trump administration on the revised plan failed to materialize, as did it as well as to Israel's claim that the suspension of help for Gaza had been agreed with Washington.

Israel said Hamas rejected the offer and then stopped all humanitarian aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip.

The reaction of Hamas and other parties

Hamas calls for negotiations on permanent ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of the Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip as part of the second phase of the agreement. The group accused Israel of "persistent manipulation" by the proposal to extend the first phase.

The organization criticized the announcement of Israel sharply and appealed to the intermediaries to put pressure on Israel to put an end to its "punishing and immoral measures".

The international community has greatly condemned Israel's decision to block the help, including the intermediary of the agreement, the UN and auxiliary groups. Egypt clearly spoke out against the politicization of humanitarian aid and asked the international community to take determined measures in order to move the Israeli government to the unconditional granting of humanitarian aid.

future developments and the situation in Gaza

The future of dozens of Israeli hostages and tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip remains uncertain, since concern grows that the ceasefire could collapse. Netanyahu is under pressure from his government's far right to move back to war, a scenario that may be less resistance under the new Trump administration.

In a press release, the forum for hostages and missing families appealed to Trump to finalize a deal to bring all hostages home. The representatives of the families demanded that the negotiations continue without delay, and urged the final elaboration of a comprehensive agreement to immediate release of all hostages in a single step, emphasizing that the time for those who are still in captivity.

In a possibly provocative step towards Hamas, an Israeli source CNN announced that Israel would not deduct its troops from the border with Egypt, the so-called Philadelphia corridor, which would be necessary under the conditions of a possible second phase of the armistice.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza, where more than 2 million people live, remains critical because the already scarce help is at risk. Despite an increase in humanitarian aid since the beginning of the ceasefire, organizations such as doctors without borders (MSF) have warned that the restrictions of the Israeli authorities hinder the humanitarian reaction in important deliveries.