Benjamin Netanyahu is actively sabotaging the Israel-Hamas hostage trade

Sources told The Jerusalem Post that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is actively destroying the possibility of any hostage trade to prevent the breakup of his government by involving the two untouched parts in negotiations.

He emphasizes that the IDF must continue to monitor the vital buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza known as the Philadelphia Hall, which has been a branch of intense gun smuggling for Hamas.

The Prime Minister has also demanded that ill-armed Hamas forces be allowed to return to northern Gaza.

Considering resources, Israel had already reached a deal with Egypt to place a mix of above-ground sensors on the Philadelphia Hall – which Israel would have monitored – and an insulated one below to stop Hamas. -Reorganizing IDF forces facing ground, thick obstacles would also hand the branch over to a mix of Egyptian and possibly UAE forces.

Additionally, Hamas still has large quantities of guns in northern Gaza.

As such, sources said that Hamas forces do not want to physically return guns to northern Gaza, so returning them physically armed to the fighting has nothing to gain except political slogans.

Netanyahu only cares about saving Ben Gvir from toppling the government

The media ridiculed Netanyahu’s two unspoken demands from a security perspective, alleging that he only cares about protecting National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) from toppling his government. Thus, the assets said, he was actively destroying any possibility of trading.

Netanyahu has been very sensitive in his demands regarding the Philadelphia Hall and northern Gaza, he later surrounded them while attending talks in Cairo and Doha as negotiators for the Mossad and Shin Weger (Israel Security Company).

The issue of Philadelphia Hall and northern Gaza was part of the five redlines he outlined, which he said fell within the framework of the unedited three-phase proposal unveiled by US President Joe Biden on May 31.

Hamas initially balked at accepting that proposal, insisting that Israel must adhere to a permanent ceasefire and completely withdraw from the Gaza Strip and the Philadelphia Hall before any negotiations could take place.

It later dropped that demand and authorized the trade-specified method, in which about 33 to 18 hostages would be freed in part one in exchange for peace in the war and the release of Palestinian security prisoners and terrorists held in Israeli prisons. Could.

On June 16 of Part One, which is scheduled to last for 6 weeks, negotiations will begin on the issue of a permanent ceasefire. According to Netanyahu, Hamas has since requested 29 changes. It has attempted alternative de facto techniques to re-establish the problem of a permanent ceasefire.

The Prime Minister had earlier this time said that he planned to stick to the May 31 hostage resolution and would not move back even a millimeter from it. His redlines, he said, fall within the framework of that Biden proposal.

On the other hand, Assets said that the issues of northern Gaza and the corridor have been part of Israeli negotiations in the past. Jerusalem had apparently abandoned those demands in order to bring about a breakthrough in the Biden framework, which would have been a leap forward that would have allowed a return to full negotiations.

People with knowledge have said that as a result of Hamas’s generous concessions the business would have collapsed between now and then, and many of the hostages would already have returned to their properties.

The underlying structure that followed included Mossad Director David Barnia, Shin Weger Director Ronen Bar, and IDF Maj.-Gen. (Residence) Nitzan Allon had a few weeks ago persuaded Hamas to agree, sources said, to return the hostages to Israel as part of a 42-day lull in the war during the business half. will allow.

Netanyahu talks in part one about his efforts to protect the maximum group of surviving hostages and presents this as one of his all-in-one plans.

If the two sides did not succeed in reaching a decision about a permanent ceasefire at the end of phase one, Israel could later resume its Gaza operations, with a large proportion of the hostages already in Hamas hands. Has achieved. Some estimates are that only 50–70 of them are still alive.

However, as negotiations were already underway to push for implementation of the definitive Biden framework, Netanyahu added at least two untouched key conditions that, according to the sources, pulled the rug out from under Israel’s negotiators. .

Sources say that all concerned negotiators will nevertheless try their best to make something forward, and will not abandon their participation in the talks, although there are fears that Israel could be blamed at this moment for the failure of the talks. .S.A.

On the other hand, the US has strongly insisted that Israel remains committed to negotiations, with Conditions Segment spokesman Matthew Miller insisting on an almost nightly basis that negotiations are ongoing.

He has also issued statements aimed at the upcoming Israeli assassination of Hamas army chief Mohammed Deif. Sources indicated a misconception that Hamas was avoiding negotiations.

Biden’s deeply problematic debate skills and his survival of previous US President Donald Trump’s assassination targets, as well as negotiation problems, have leveled the playing field.

Sources have speculated that Netanyahu is more confident that Trump will win re-election and feels less pressure to align his long-term strategic plans with Biden’s demands.