Location at a glance: Report: Israel has a new proposal for Gaza-Waffen rest

According to a media report, Israel is available for a more extensive troop retreat than previously offered during the tough mediation talks about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Israel had presented a corresponding new proposal, reported the “Times of Israel”, citing an Arabic diplomat. However, it should be doubted that this concession will bring a breakthrough in the indirect negotiations in the Qatarian capital Doha, it said. Israel’s insistence on the whereabouts of his army in the south of the coastal area is related to controversial plans by the government to want to build a huge camp for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Critics speak of an internment camp that could amount to a forced deportation in the long term. Israel speaks of a “humanitarian city” as a starting point for a “voluntary departure” of the residents of Gaza. The “New York Times” quoted Husam Badran, a rank-high member of the Islamist Hamas, who described the establishment of such a camp as “deliberately obstructive demand”, which would further difficult to negotiate the already difficult negotiations on a ceasefire in the Gaza War.

Opposition politician to plan for warehouse: “crazy”

The Israeli opposition leader Jair Lapid described the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy – even after the standards of this government”. The plan, recently presented by Defense Minister Israel Katz, stipulates that a zone is being built on the ruins of the city of Rafah, in which 600,000 people are initially to be recorded. According to “Times of Israel”, all of the more than two million residents of Gaza will later be there. Anyone who is admitted can no longer leave the “humanitarian city”.

“Will there be a fence? A normal fence? An electric fence? How many soldiers will it guard him?” Called the newspaper Lapid. “What will the soldiers do if children want to leave the city? Who will feed them? Who will be responsible for water and electricity? What will happen if there will be epidemics and diseases? Who will treat them?” According to Israeli media reports, there is also clear criticism of the plan from the army. Accordingly, however, there are doubts about whether the camp is ever built.

Everything just a negotiation tactic?

In Israel it is speculated that the plan could rather be a negotiating tactic in order to move Hamas to concessions or to bring the right -wing extremist coalition partners from Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree to an ceasefire. The right-wing extremist police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir also sees the latter, the “New York Times” reported. Ben-Gvir strictly rejects a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu, against which a corruption process is running, rely on the Hardliner in his coalition like Ben-Gvir for his political survival.

Israel’s indirect negotiations with Hamas did not recently come in Doha. One main reason is different opinions about the extent of the Israeli troop deduction, especially from the south of the Gaza Strip. So far, Israel had insisted that his forces remained in a relatively large area. This would include a three-kilometer-wide buffer zone along the border with Egypt near Rafah and the so-called Morag corridor, which separates Rafah from the city of Chan Junis.

Hamas demands the withdrawal of the Israeli forces to the positions that it had taken before the collapse of the previous ceasefire in March. The new proposal of Israel, about which the “Times of Israel” reported, citing an Arabic diplomat, stipulates that the Israeli military would only claim a two -kilometer -wide buffer zone along the southern border near Rafah.

UN boss: Violence in Gaza undermines human dignity

The Gaza War triggered the unprecedented attack by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist organizations to Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were delayed to Gaza as hostages. Since then, according to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. The barely verifiable number does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

UN General Secretary António Guterres described the number of Palestinians killed in recent history. “This undermines the most fundamental conditions for the human dignity of the population of Gaza, regardless of the enormous suffering they suffer,” said Guterres in New York. He emphasized that he also condemned the “terrible attacks” of Hamas from October 7th.

Meanwhile, the UN chief sticks to a two-state solution. With a view to a conference planned at the end of the month at the UN in New York, he said: There could only be a solution if both Palestinians and Israelis have a state in which they can exercise their rights. The conference is scheduled to take place from July 28th to 30th at the ministerial level and is organized by France and Saudi Arabia. However, a breakthrough is not expected.