Afrasianet - Dr. Hani Al-Akkad - The second phase of the agreement to end the war on Gaza is somewhat ambiguous, especially since there is no specific time for its start according to the agreement that was signed in a large ceremony in Sharm el-Sheikh last October in the presence of a large number of world presidents and leaders, and despite the passage of nearly two months since the start of the first phase of the agreement, which is the stage of handing over the living and dead Israeli prisoners.
However, the issue of starting the second phase has remained in place until some of the items of the first phase have not been completed, the most important of which is the opening of the Rafah crossing in both directions for those leaving and coming to the Gaza Strip, the United States is trying to push the parties forward from time to time to achieve some concessions to start the second phase in light of a real and clear Israeli obstruction and Israeli unwillingness to progress towards completing the rest of the points of the agreement.
Carrying out blowing up buildings, facilities, roads, schools, hospitals, and destroying infrastructure and agricultural infrastructure in the so-called yellow line areas, claiming that it has guarantees of the continuation of military action in those areas from the Trump administration under the pretext of fighting terrorism and destroying Hamas infrastructure, and in fact it is implementing a plan to crush the civilian infrastructure in those areas, not in retaliation against the Palestinians, but as a continuation of the plan for the geographical and demographic change of the Gaza Strip. During this phase, the first phase, Israel continued its war on Gaza at a less bloody pace than before the ceasefire, but it did not stop killing, shelling and launching airstrikes on various areas, killing more than 400 martyrs and wounding thousands.
Hamas is close to completing the handover of all its bodies, and only the body of one soldier remains, and the search with Egyptian crews is in full swing to close this file, at a time when the United States is beginning to realize that Israel is disrupting progress towards the second phase of the agreement, which is the essence of the agreement, and seeks to start the second phase, even if the last body remains in Gaza, because it is aware that this delay may threaten to blow up the entire agreement, so Trump and his team are seeking to accomplish what is in the The second stage is the start of the implementation of its provisions, which can bring about a change in the reality of the Palestinians living in and allow the entry of more aid and shelter tools, such as tents and caravans, and the start of reconstruction in all areas of the Gaza Strip, and not only according to the Israeli plan in Rafah or beyond the Yellow Line.
The American website Axios revealed that a senior American official said that President Trump will announce in the middle of this month the details of the second phase and the composition of the Peace Council, the international force, and the committee that will manage the Gaza Strip, and the website added that the US administration is now working at this stage on finalizing the structure of the new Gaza government, adding that Israel will withdraw from additional areas in the Strip.
The website revealed that Hamas will leave the rule of the Gaza Strip and begin the process of disarming it at the latest during Christmas, and the website said that the Peace Council headed by President Trump will take over the leadership of the administrative structure in Gaza while Washington and mediators work to meet the requirements for the completion of the agreement of the second phase of the plan.
A few days ago, the Trump administration announced that Trump will receive Netanyahu at the White House around December 28 to discuss the arrangements for the start of the second phase of the plan to end the war on Gaza, and of course it may be the last meeting before Netanyahu retires from political life and Israel goes to early Knesset elections according to many expectations, whether Netanyahu gets the pardon or not, and the meeting is mainly dedicated to discussing the start of the second phase and pushing forward towards Israel's implementation of its terms and steps without hindrance.
Trump is expected to announce the start of the second phase of the agreement at that time, in the presence of Netanyahu, especially the Peace Council, the start of the deployment of the International Stabilization Forces in Gaza, the start of the work of the Governance Committee in the Gaza Strip, and the deployment of Palestinian police and various security agencies.
Trump is keen to hold ceremonies every once in a while to implement the stages of his plan, as if he wants to remind the world that he is a man who seeks only peace in this world, as if he is the "Pope of Peace" and the source of freedom for oppressed peoples.
The truth is that Trump seeks to achieve world peace, but with a strange American philosophy, this philosophy does not equal peoples and does not care about equal rights in many cases, as in the Palestinian affairs, Trump still condons many of the bloody acts of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and still condones many attacks by Israeli settlers on civilians in Palestinian villages in the West Bank.
The Israeli obstruction of the agreement to end the war on Gaza has become clear because Israel is creating a crisis and there is a problem in every step of the agreement, as if it does not want to end the war on Gaza completely and it likes the continuation of its airstrikes, the demolition and blowing up of buildings, and the explosion of robots that have returned these days in the areas of eastern Gaza. Unfortunately, Israel is trying to suggest to the world that it is fighting an army that is still operating in those areas under its control, and it is destroying the infrastructure of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance factions, but the truth is Quite the opposite, Israel continues to destroy civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip without respecting an agreement, respecting international law, and not abiding by the ceasefire agreement.
The United States is aware that Israel is putting obstacles in the way of the stages of the agreement and the terms of each stage, and it wants to prolong each stage so that it can implement its malign plans, and the last of these obstacles is the objection to Fatah through Rafah in both directions and seeking an opening only for those who want to leave the Gaza Strip abroad.
Israel has not only obstructed the implementation of the first phase, but it has also placed obstacles in many points and steps of the second phase, the most important of which is the objection to the international stabilization force and Turkey's participation in this force, and it had the right to approve who participates in the forces and who does not participate, thus the most important foundations of the agreement, which gives this right only to the guarantors and mediators.
It will also make the disarmament of Hamas a mother of obstacles, and it may not agree to deploy the stabilization force until it guarantees that this happens, even though there is a prior agreement that Hamas will hand over its heavy weapons to a neutral party such as Egypt or Qatar.
It is clear from Israel's behavior during the nearly two months of the agreement that Israel will hinder the implementation of every plan, and the second phase may be disrupted by many pretexts that are not in the interest of preserving Trump's plan and not collapsing it, and here comes the role of the American effort and the Trump team to seek to prevent Israel from inventing pretexts and hindering the implementation of the second phase in its entirety smoothly and a good follow-up of all the steps included in the second phase, thus giving a central and vital role to the American Civil Coordination Center, provided that it works With complete neutrality, and preventing the continuation of daily killings by Israel, and stopping the daily attacks on infrastructure, including tampering with the withdrawal lines of the Israeli forces, delaying the withdrawal operations, i.e. hindering the return of Palestinians to their lives on their land and beside their homes that were demolished by the Israeli war machine, and providing all forms of aid and assistance to the population to recover from the ravages and effects of this war. When they rebuilt their homes that were demolished by the Israeli war machine.
