The UN human rights body considers that the detention of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya by Israel was arbitrary and requests his immediate release. Several human rights organizations and his lawyer have reported that this prominent Gaza doctor is in imminent danger of death due to his deteriorating health. The concern is such that the Israeli Supreme Court itself ordered the Israeli government this Sunday to provide explanations regarding Abu Safiya's situation.The UN working group, which has issued the conclusions, states that Israel's actions contravene multiple articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. "The appropriate remedy would be to immediately release Abu Safiya and grant him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law," stated the text, which also expressed doubts as to whether the treatment received by the Palestinian doctor was "a widespread or systematic practice of arbitrary detention in the country."
Hamas yields the government of Gaza to a team of technocrats, but Israel does not let them enter
The measure, foreseen in Trump's plan, remains a symbolic gesture
BarcelonaHamas announced this Monday the resignation of the members of the provisional government of Gaza to cede it to a Palestinian technocratic committee, as foreseen in Donald Trump's plan. The measure remains, however, a symbolic gesture, because Israel has not allowed the committee members, who were constituted a few months ago in Cairo, to enter the Strip. The Islamists send the signal that the government of Gaza is not an obstacle to advancing the plan of the American president, which only carries peace in name, since the genocide of the Palestinians has not stopped.
The objective, therefore, would be to show that it is Benjamin Netanyahu's government that is blocking the phased advance foreseen in the plan, according to which Israeli forces would have to withdraw from the Strip and Hamas would have to cede its weapons to allow Gaza, under Trump's lifelong tutelage, to end up becoming a tourist resort on the Mediterranean. Hamas's decision, however, does not compromise its armed wing: discussions in Cairo on the disarmament of the militia continue in parallel, and according to negotiating sources cited by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz,the militia is willing to lay down arms but not to hand them over. This would fit with the Islamists' previous approach, who have always refused to hand over weapons to Israel and have said they will only deliver them to the Palestinian state.
And since Israel is also not a signatory to the agreement, everything indicates that there should be no changes: since Trump announced the ceasefire with great fanfare last October, Israeli troops have killed more than a thousand Palestinians in Gaza, continue to occupy 60% of the territory, and have driven out international teams from major NGOs that were trying to alleviate a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented dimensions in the region.
In a statement, Hamas clarified that all public workers will continue in their posts during the transition. It also specified that the plan to transfer power to the technocratic committee has been communicated to the representatives of the Palestinian parties, the council of clans, and also to civil society organizations, in the presence of a UN observer. A new round of negotiations is expected between the mediators and the so-called Gaza Peace Council, presided over by the Bulgarian diplomat Nikolai Mladenov.
The genocide does not stop
On the ground, Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip have killed at least six Palestinians and injured more than 22, according to medical sources. Among the victims are three Palestinian fishermen injured by an Israeli drone off the coast of Gaza City. Although large-scale fighting has stopped, Israeli attacks against Palestinians in the territory have continued. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, violations of the "ceasefire" by the Israeli army have killed at least 1,072 people and injured 3,463 more since the truce came into effect.