Did Israel blow up the exchange deal?

The question to which thousands are searching for a clear answer seems to have been ready in the diplomatic corridors: Will the Cairo negotiations produce an exchange deal that will ultimately lead to an end to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip?

To answer this question, we review the Israeli responses to what happened the day before yesterday in Cairo, which contained within them all the "no’s" coupled with an absolute rejection of all attempts to bring viewpoints closer together. Israel wants to release a limited number of Palestinian prisoners, refuses to withdraw the army except from areas densely populated with civilians, refuses to stop the fighting completely, and wants to start with only a temporary truce. It also renewed its rejection of the return of the displaced to the northern and central Gaza Strip. Netanyahu's decision yesterday evening to prevent the Israeli delegation from returning to Cairo confirms the Israeli refusal and the threat of more military pressure in the belief that it will be the key to the release of most of the kidnapped people, according to Netanyahu.

Netanyahu insisted on what he described as Hamas abandoning its imaginary demands, and when these demands fall, he claimed that we can move forward...

These statements and the results of the negotiations up to this moment prove beyond a doubt that Israel is the one seeking to undermine the exchange deal in order to fully achieve the military objectives of Netanyahu’s personal and private agenda, through which he seeks to prolong the war and thus pave the way for large-scale aggression on Rafah.

Israeli confusion

In recent days, the army and Shin Bet have focused on the whereabouts of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and there have been many statements about Israel's ability to reach him and arrest or assassinate him in a message addressed to public opinion in Israel. After publishing a video the day before yesterday showing Sinwar and his family in one of the tunnels last October, Israel bragged a lot that it had the ability to reach him, but the truth of the statements reported by the Hebrew media about the interruption of communications two weeks ago with Sinwar, reflects Israel’s catastrophic intelligence failure. There is an Israeli attempt to influence the course of the war and try to inflict defeat on the high morale of the resistance, in addition to it being a tactical step perhaps to provoke the Hamas leadership to declare that contact with Sinwar has not been cut off.

Israeli failures continue in all fields, and it has no choice but to carry out more killing, destruction and displacement. It has become clear that its next destination will be Rafah in light of the expected failure of the exchange deal, even if temporarily.