Who will inherit the ruins? This is the question that has arisen since the entry into force of the ceasefire in Gaza on January 19, 2025. This multi-phase agreement, aimed at the release of Israeli hostages and the withdrawal of the Jewish state, remains unclear about the administration of the enclave. “There are no details on the post-war period in the ceasefire agreement,” underlines Khalil Sayegh, a Gazan political analyst who has been living in the United States for three years, who recalls: “Israel has never been clear about the future governance of Gaza. »
Indeed, focused on his military operations, the Israeli Prime Minister has hardly proposed a political solution for the day after. Some of his generals, as well as Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defense until early November 2024, proposed entrusting the administration of Gaza to Majed Faraj, head of the security services of the Palestinian Authority (called the Shut up“authority” in Arabic) based in Ramallah, in the West Bank. “I strongly oppose Hamastan being replaced by Fatahstan,” replied Benyamin Netanyahu in May 2024, referring to Fatah, the party leading the Sulta.
Hostile in principle to any Palestinian state, the Prime Minister wants to maintain the division between the Gaza Strip, held by Hamas since 2007, and the West Bank. To prevent the return of Sulta, he tried to buy the Doghmouch clan, a powerful Gazan family formerly linked to al-Qaeda, then Daesh. But the assassination of one of its leaders by Hamas in March 2024 cut the maneuver short.
-“This episode is revealing of the vision of the Israeli right, Remarque Khalil Sayegh. They are convinced that the Palestinians are not a people, but a collection of tribes that could be divided up without difficulty. » The religious nationalist Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, for his part proposed reducing “half” the population of Gaza
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