Afrasianet - The High Representative of the Peace Council in Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, on Thursday presented a 15-point "road map" for the implementation of the "peace plan" proposed by US President Donald Trump on the Gaza Strip "in clear and simple language," he said in a post published on the X website, after a briefing he presented to the UN Security Council on his first report on "The Future of Peace in the Gaza Strip."
It announced the withdrawal of Israeli forces to an "agreed line", and kept the battle lines frozen until "the necessary conditions for a full gradual withdrawal are met", and considered Gaza as an "area free of terrorism and extremism", and "its redevelopment for the benefit of the residents of Gaza", and it was striking in that plan that Israel would not occupy or annex an area that included 21 settlements whose residents withdrew in 2005, and that no one from the Gaza Strip would be forced to leave, and that those who left would be allowed to return.
The plan also included sending "full aid" to Gaza "without interference from both sides," and moving the administration of Gaza to a "non-political Palestinian technocratic committee" under the supervision and control of the International Peace Council.
Trump's 20 points provided what could be called a "vast diplomatic network" accepted by Israel, Hamas, Arab mediators, and international actors, which made it vague about which actors to identify, in what order, and under what control, and nearly five months after the plan was announced, the entire Middle East region entered the midst of war Mladenov found a diplomatic way to describe this renewed genocide by saying that the ceasefire was "far from perfect" and that Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid were "not abstract issues" and also warned of the risk that the deteriorating status quo would become permanent "with Gaza divided and Hamas retaining military and administrative control."
Seven months and 22 days. The most important aspect of this plan, as expected, is to make disarmament a condition for everything that follows, on which the subsequent assumptions are based: Israeli withdrawal, reconstruction, donor confidence, and the transfer of power to the Palestinian National Committee.
The disarming of Hamas is therefore the magic solution that opens the door to the implementation of the rest of the plan, and it assumes that Israel will then fulfill its commitments and withdraw.
According to the map, the vacuum of interim rule in Gaza will be filled "by international resolution," which will show the "administrative committee," especially if it is not closely related to the Gaza Strip, as a tool coming from abroad, and it will be problematic because it does not have a democratic mandate from the Palestinians themselves.
The most obvious flaw in both plans is that they do not offer a stable and viable path toward Palestinian statehood: Trump's plan postpones issues to "future talks" and links them to "Palestinian Authority reform" (a stretchy term that can be interpreted in more than one direction), and Mladenov's map transforms the issue of Palestinian statehood, which is at the heart of the Palestinian political project, into subsequent outcomes that follow the disarmament of Hamas and the factions, and makes this necessary for the transition to civilian rule, postponing sovereignty indefinitely.
Diplomatically, it led to the declaration of a ceasefire, which was gradually eroded by Israel's confrontational plans, while Mladenov's road map seems more serious as a plan for governance and security, but it adopts Israel's interpretation of priorities, as well as on the implementation of the Netanyahu government's commitments, and then the Palestinians' acceptance of a transitional authority to be established under intensive international supervision.
