Analysts believe that the agreement between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) to form a joint committee to manage the Gaza Strip will be an important entry point towards stopping the Israeli war on the Strip.

Agence France-Presse quoted leaders in Hamas and Fatah confirming that the two movements agreed to form a joint committee to manage the Gaza Strip in the phase following the war, and that they called it the "Community Support Committee".

Writer and political analyst Ahmed Al-Hila said - in his speech during the analytical pause "The Course of Events" - that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always used the issue of the day after the war and who runs the Gaza Strip, in order to complicate the negotiations.

He recalled that Hamas has announced more than once that it does not seek power in the Gaza Strip, but that the matter can be managed by Palestinian consensus.

Al-Hila considered the agreement between the Fatah and Hamas movements "an essential part and will be an important entry point towards arranging a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip", and noted in this context that Egypt is trying to pull the pretexts out of Netanyahu's hands.

Thomas Warrick, a former US State Department official for Middle Eastern affairs, in his talk during the analytical pause "The Course of Events", recalled that the US administration refuses to have Hamas run the Gaza Strip after the war ends, and for his part, he spoke about US efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Palestinian Strip.

It is noteworthy that the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden confirmed that it is currently working with Qatar, Turkey and Egypt to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the military establishment in Israel informed the political level that "the conditions are ripe" to conclude a deal with Hamas after the end of the Lebanon war and the events in Syria, in addition to the change in the US administration.

Trump's Threat

For his part, writer Ihab Jabareen, who specializes in Israeli affairs, said that there are no favorable conditions for any agreement within Netanyahu's government, and he cited a statement by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir two days ago in which he said that "any agreement that might lead to ending the war in Gaza will lead to his resignation from the government."

Jabareen pointed to the importance of internal and external pressures on the Israeli Prime Minister, and said that his acceptance of the agreement with Lebanon came because of the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, in addition to what Jabareen described as blackmail practiced by France with Netanyahu.

He doubted the existence of a real intention on the part of the US administration to pressure Israel, because - in Jabareen's opinion - it still accuses Hamas and the Palestinian resistance of obstructing negotiations and defends Israel in return.

Regarding the threat of US President-elect Donald Trump with consequences that he likened to hell in the Middle East, if the prisoners held in the Gaza Strip are not released before his inauguration on January 20, the former official at the US State Department for Middle Eastern Affairs explained that Trump is ready to do anything he believes is in the US interest.

He ruled out negotiating with Hamas, but he will pressure the countries that support it and receive its leaders on their lands, and he specifically mentioned Iran.

As for the writer and political analyst Al-Hila, he said that Trump's threat was out of place and was issued in an undiplomatic manner, and he ruled out that it would affect the position of the Hamas movement, because the Gaza Strip is going through something worse, explaining that the one obstructing the negotiations is Netanyahu and Israel, not Hamas, which demands the rights of the Palestinian people and does not set impossible conditions. Source: Al Jazeera