Afrasianet - After more than a year and three months of a war of extermination, bombing, destruction and cutting off all lifelines of the besieged enclave fiercely and cruelly, and after marathon negotiations, contradictory positions and mutual accusations, a three-phase ceasefire agreement was announced in Doha.
Just as the flood of Al-Aqsa and then the Gaza Holocaust led to consequences and changes that affected the region, the region, and even the world, the aftermath of that destructive war will have many repercussions, consequences and consequences in the short and long term, Palestinian, Arab, Israeli and international.
At the level of the Jewish state, Israel and Netanyahu have failed miserably to achieve any of the goals declared at the beginning of the war or those that are undeclared. Neither Hamas has been uprooted from Gaza – and has become more entrenched in Palestinian society – nor have prisoners been forcibly freed, nor have Gazans been deported to Sinai or elsewhere.
Israel's behavior in the war, coupled with the hateful racist statements that accompanied it, such as describing the people of Gaza as human animals, officially depriving the residents of Gazans of water, medicine and food, destroying hospitals, and so on, constituted a disgraceful behavior against the Jewish state and its international status and reputation.
The Israeli bet in this regard was that getting rid of the resistance and uprooting it is the most important goal, and then that the serious damage to reputation and prestige could be repaired, through international public relations campaigns using the media, social media, and so on.
Israel's status has collapsed internationally and at the official and popular levels, with university student demonstrations in the United States and elsewhere condemning the Zionist crime against Gaza, and unprecedented statements from Western and international politicians and intellectuals condemning the Jewish state and its crimes. The Spanish Deputy Prime Minister stated that Palestine's borders are from the sea to the river.
On more than one international occasion, celebrities and artists have stood in front of international media to declare their solidarity with the people of Gaza and their condemnation of Israeli crimes, as did the Jewish director Sarah Friedland at the Venice Festival on stage, while receiving her award last September.
The ICC announced the issuance of arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Galant, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the International Court of Justice called on Israel to take additional measures to prevent genocide in Gaza and stop the military offensive on Rafah.
Netanyahu agreed to what he had been rejecting for months, so Israelis wondered why he prolonged the war and Israeli losses.
It is noticeable that the man moved away from the media significantly after the announcement of the Israeli approval of the exchange deal, which observers do not rule out will be circumvented when moving from the first phase to the second and perhaps earlier.
Israeli prisoners to be released by the resistance could pose a dilemma for Netanyahu and his government. Having spent so much time in captivity in extremely difficult conditions due to the Israeli military blockade and brutality of the bombardment and destruction of Gaza that they were in one way or another victims, and assuming that this brutality was in order to try to save them, it is not easy to predict how they think now, what their feelings and priorities are.
The Israeli prisoners will be the focus of attention of Israeli society and the local and international media, and may constitute surprises of high caliber in their positions, visions and activities, and some of them may form movements or join movements that constitute a headache for Netanyahu and his extremist allies.
If Netanyahu has promised his extremist allies to compensate for Gaza's failure with settlement achievements, as news reports support the credibility of the Israeli airstrikes on Jenin, the effects will be direct on the Palestinian Authority and on Jordan, which warns against any Palestinian displacement to its territory, as the Zionist extremists seek and brazenly declare.
The weak and perhaps even complicit positions of the PA as some see it from the Gaza massacre, its siege of the Jenin camp and its pursuit of resisters, in addition to the steadfastness of the resistance in Gaza and the growing popular support for it, especially if it succeeds in releasing prisoners from Fatah heavy figures, will constitute a serious headache for the PA and its security services.
The ceasefire will ignite an internal Israeli political and ideological conflict, and may go to deeper and more dangerous extents, and the use of violence may be repeated, as in the case of Yitzhak Rabin, as Israeli society is deeply divided and united. Israeli politicians and military personnel will be pursued and besieged by cases brought against them in Western and international courts, as happened in Brazil recently, and Israeli Holocaust Day celebrations will be a great opportunity for Gaza sympathizers to show official Zionist and Western hypocrisy in dealing with historical and present issues.
The fall of Assad in Syria and the steadfastness of the resistance in Gaza and its legendary heroism, which led to a ceasefire deal that Netanyahu dosed like poison, raise official concern in some Arab circles about Arab popular restlessness, especially with the inability of the Arab regime to confront the Zionist savagery on Gaza, or even to abide by the decisions of the emergency Arab-Islamic summit on 11/11/2023 in breaking the siege imposed on Gaza.
The repercussions of what happened in Gaza, which were reflected in the results of the French, British and American elections, will continue in the West and internationally. If popular and student protests in support of Gaza and the Palestinian cause in Western countries are organized in political and human rights currents, bodies and gatherings, they will constitute an important factor in the political scene, and will negatively affect the currents supporting the occupation, and will surround them with pictures and facts of what happened in Gaza in terms of massacres, violations and humanitarian crimes.
The ceasefire will also open the door wide for the Western media to convey images of the suffering and wounds of Gazans and document Zionist crimes with their lenses, pulses and words.
The Palestinian resistance has proven to be so deeply rooted in Palestinian society that it is resistant to all attempts at eradication and exclusion. Watch young boys in Gaza start spontaneous demonstrations shortly after the ceasefire was announced, chanting that they are Mohammed Deif's men. However, the resistance faces significant challenges in the post-ceasefire phase.
The Gaza Strip is almost completely destroyed, the needs are great, the human tragedies are great, there is a generation of orphans, widows, the wounded, the severely injured and the permanent physical disabilities, and many traps and mines will be planted in their way to thwart them and to try to achieve the inability of the military force.
The health authorities in Gaza should cooperate with humanitarian and human rights bodies and competent bodies in most countries of the world, especially in the West, to help transfer cases that need medical care, treatment and follow-up to health institutions to ease the burden on the Gaza Strip, whose health system has been destroyed by Israel.
These wounded and injured will constitute living and moving evidence of Israeli brutality, and thus be messengers of the Palestinian cause, which was revived by the Gaza epic and Holocaust and pushed to the forefront of the international presence after it was almost shrouded in neglect and buried in oblivion.
Israeli crimes in Gaza and the legendary steadfastness of their resistance will constitute a major moral and psychological barrier to attempts at Arab-Israeli normalization. It will be continuously recalled from memory in the popular, religious and preaching presence of Arabs and Muslims to contribute to changing the patterns and concepts of generations of young people and boys, which opens the door wide - especially if the official Arab system fails to provide relief to Gaza and its afflicted people after the war - to form intellectual and political currents that believe in rejecting reality and the need to change it.
Monitoring and following up on the Israeli wars and aggressions on Gaza over the past two decades shows us that the resistance and the development of its capabilities are increasing in parallel with the violence and brutality of the Israeli aggressions.
The last war, which was the longest and most violent by a large margin, and with Israel using all means, crimes and violations and its inability to break the will of resistance and popular incubator in Gaza, will have very great repercussions, and some may believe the prophecy that the generation of Gaza after the flood is the generation of the liberation of Palestine.