Hamas cedes Gaza's government to a team of technocrats, but Israel does not let them in

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 entry into the Strip of the committee members, which was constituted a few months ago in Cairo. 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 the government of Benjamin Netanyahu who is blocking the phased advance foreseen in the plan, according to which the Israeli forces would have to withdraw from the Strip and Hamas would have to cede its weapons to allow Gaza, under the lifelong tutelage of Trump, to eventually become 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 its arms but not to hand them over. This would fit with the Islamists' previous approach, which has always refused to hand over weapons to Israel and has said that they will only hand them over 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 employees will continue in their positions during the transition. It also specified that the plan to transfer power to the technocratic committee has been communicated to representatives of 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, chaired by the Bulgarian diplomat Nikolai Mladenov.

The genocide does not stop

On the ground, Israeli bombardments 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.