Maneuvers amidst conspiracies

As the maneuvering related to the exchange deal continues, and the level of Israeli and American threats increases, in response to Hamas’s decision not to release the sixth batch of detainees, who are scheduled to be released next Saturday, the conspiracies being hatched against the Palestinian cause continue, in light of the plan of US President Donald Trump, who publicly threatened Hamas with the necessity of returning all Israeli detainees by noon next Saturday, otherwise the gates of hell will be opened on Gaza.

After Israel received details of the violations it committed from the mediators, and the demands raised by Hamas in order to oblige Israel to abide by the agreement and not circumvent it, Israel came out yesterday with new maneuvers. On the one hand, it ignored all of Hamas’s demands related to the violations of the relief protocol, specifically during yesterday’s meeting that lasted four hours. It also appeared in a threatening tone in which Netanyahu claimed that in light of Hamas’s violation of the agreement, Saturday would be the last date for returning the Israeli detainees, otherwise the ceasefire would end, and the Israeli army would return to violent fighting, until Hamas was finally defeated.

Netanyahu's threat, which was accompanied by a decision to redeploy reserve soldiers around the Gaza envelope, by the so-called Southern Command, is a test of Hamas's pulse and to see if it will back down from its demands. However, the window through which the Israeli Prime Minister appeared cannot be underestimated in its seriousness despite the above, because Netanyahu is surrounded by the ruling right-wing coalition parties, most of which are extremists, who do not want the deal to continue. Accordingly, this maneuver may turn into a real war in the coming days.

Amidst the great controversy over the exchange deal, the chapters of the great conspiracy carried out by the obsessed American president who believes he is the Pharaoh of his time continued, through reaffirming the displacement of the Palestinian people from Gaza, and threatening Egypt and Jordan with withholding aid to them if they refused to receive the Palestinians. He also set an imaginary date for the return of all Israeli detainees until noon next Saturday, which made the Israelis salivate, who welcomed this demand and Trump’s vision for the future of Gaza, especially the extremist minister Smotrich, who also set next Saturday as the date for blowing up the exchange deal.

With Hamas insisting that it is committed to the agreement, as long as the occupation is also committed to it, and that it was sponsored and guaranteed by the mediators (Egypt, Qatar and the United States), and that Israel is the one that did not abide by the pledges, and with the statement of categorical rejection of Trump’s statements about the displacement of the population and considering them racist and a call for ethnic cleansing and aiming to liquidate the Palestinian cause and deny the established national rights of the Palestinian people, the ball will move to the mediators’ courts in the coming few days before Saturday, in order to try to save the exchange deal, as Qatar is expected to make great efforts in this direction, as is expected the arrival of Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff to the region. Will the mediators’ efforts succeed in healing the rift, or will the conspiracies be stronger than the window of negotiations?