FAARAN: A Zionist media outlet acknowledged that the occupying regime has accepted the continuation of the Hamas resistance movement in power, as it understands that without this acceptance, negotiations will not yield results. Al-Alam – Occupied Palestine
The “Kan” television network of the Zionist regime cited elements such as the control of the “Philadelphi Route” (Salah al-Din Axis) on the Gaza-Egypt border, monitoring the movement of people from south to north of the Gaza Strip, and access to the names of living Zionist prisoners as parts of the amendments to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed ceasefire plan.
This Zionist media outlet stated that Netanyahu’s aim in including these conditions in the ceasefire plan is to prevent it from succeeding, and wrote that the proposed amendments by Netanyahu are unlikely to be accepted by Hamas. According to this report, Netanyahu’s proposed plan does not mention the destruction or removal of Hamas from power, but it reserves the right for Israel to return to war.
The Zionist news site “Walla” also, in a similar report, emphasized the monitoring of the Salah al-Din Axis as stated by David Barnea, head of the Zionist regime’s foreign intelligence agency (Mossad), which could be achieved through the presence of international peacekeeping forces. Previously, a Western official, a Palestinian source, and two Egyptian sources told Reuters that the Zionist regime is designing an amendment to the ceasefire plan that could complicate the negotiations.
Israeli regime negotiators want a screening mechanism for the return of civilian residents to northern Gaza, as they are concerned that these residents might support Hamas fighters who still control the area. Meanwhile, a Palestinian source and two Egyptian sources said that Hamas has rejected the new request of the Israeli regime.
The two Egyptian sources also stated that Cairo did not accept the request to control the Gaza-Egypt border on the Salah al-Din Axis, declaring that this demand is outside the framework of previous agreements. According to the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and the Zionist regime, the Salah al-Din Axis was established as a buffer zone within the Gaza Strip, parallel to the Egyptian border, extending 14 kilometers from the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza.
The Zionist regime controlled the Salah al-Din Axis as part of its jurisdiction until 2005; however, after withdrawing from this area, it handed control over to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority forces controlled this area until 2007. In the same year, following eighteen months of negotiations, a new security agreement was signed between Cairo and Tel Aviv, allowing 750 Egyptian border guards equipped with light weapons to be present in this area. According to this agreement, the Egyptian security forces were supposed to prevent the illegal infiltration and transfer of goods or military equipment into Gaza.
After the “Al-Aqsa Storm” operation on October 7 (October 15), the occupying regime’s security officials claimed that one of the routes for smuggling weapons into Gaza was through the underground tunnels of the Salah al-Din Axis in southwestern Gaza. Consequently, Tel Aviv, by sending a security delegation to Cairo, requested the deployment of its forces in this area and the installation of surveillance cameras and sensors. Despite the insistence of Netanyahu’s right-wing cabinet on fulfilling this demand, the Egyptian government, due to political-security considerations, has shown no inclination to comply.
Negotiations for a new round of ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and the Israeli regime have so far, after several rounds of talks through mediators, failed to yield any results. The occupying regime, after about 10 months since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, which began with the declared aims of destroying Palestinian resistance and returning its prisoners, has not achieved its goals.
