Palestinian Doha Meeting

It may be good, expressing goodwill with the aim of soothing the atmosphere, improving it, searching for common denominators, perhaps useful, and a step forward, that initiative called by the Hamas movement, for the Palestinian resistance factions to meet and meet in Doha on Saturday, January 18, 2025, and the following responded to the invitation: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine headed by Deputy Secretary-General Jamil Mazhar, the Democratic Front headed by Deputy Secretary-General Majida Al-Masry, the National Initiative headed by Secretary-General Mustafa Barghouti, the Palestinian People's Party headed by its Political Bureau member Shamekh Abu Sakhr, and Qadura Fares, Head of the Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority, and necessarily the Islamic Jihad Movement headed by Secretary-General Ziad Al-Nakhalah, and the Popular Front - General Command headed by its Political Bureau member Ramez Mustafa responded to the invitation.

The call may be malicious and cunning, reflecting the political cunning of Hamas, and its attempt to benefit from and employ the distinctive practical steps it has achieved, which are recorded for it, starting with: 1- The surprise operation of October 7, 2023, which was a shock to the Israelis, 2- Its steadfastness throughout the battle of the attack on the Gaza Strip, despite the heavy losses it paid for, 3- Imposing itself as an indirect negotiating party for the Israelis, 4- And finally, it imposed itself as a deciding party and partner with the Israelis in the truce agreement and the ceasefire deal.

This is why several factions did not respond to Hamas’s call, namely: 1- The Palestinian Liberation Front, 2- The Arab Liberation Front, 3- The Popular Struggle Front, 4- The Arab Palestinian Front, due to their awareness and appreciation that Hamas wants to impose itself as a Palestinian party that decides on the Gaza Strip, and this leads to the consolidation of the division, since the coup in June 2007, and its unilateral and individual administration of the Gaza Strip until October 2023, and that limiting the Israelis’ negotiations with Hamas aims to feed the division and its continuation, and to reduce and weaken the position of the legitimate authority in Ramallah, and this is done in a systematic manner and through official decisions and orientations by the extreme right-wing coalition government led by Netanyahu, since the decisions approved by his government on

6-1-2023, which are:

1- Deducting about 139 million shekels from the Authority’s funds for the benefit of the families of settlers (the families of those killed in the operations).

2- Immediately begin withdrawing the equivalent of the Authority’s payments to Palestinian prisoners and their families, and freeze Palestinian construction plans in Area C and elsewhere.

3- Cancel the granting of privileges to important figures who lead the political process against the Israeli colony.

4- Taking action against organizations in the West Bank that promote “terrorist activity” or any hostile activity, including legal political activity against the colony, under the guise of humanitarian activity.

5- Freezing Palestinian construction plans in Area C, after illegal occupation attempts by the Palestinian Authority, in violation of international agreements.

This came against the backdrop of the Palestinian Authority’s intentions to file a legal case against the colony before the International Court of Justice, reflecting the decisions of the United Nations General Assembly, which voted in December 2022 in favor of going to the International Court of Justice to obtain an advisory opinion regarding the colony’s occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967: the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.