Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, assured this Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas “will not govern in Gaza again” after the attack on October 7, 2023, which marked the beginning of 15 months of war over part of Israel in the Strip.
“I want the Israeli people to hear me loud and clear if Hamas withdraws from this agreement or changes the goals, we will support Israel in whatever it has to do. The second thing is that Hamas will not rule Gaza again. “That is unacceptable, because they have made it clear that their intention is to destroy Israel,” Waltz said in an interview with CBS News.
Waltz celebrated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the ceasefire agreement mediated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, in which Trump’s envoy to the Middle East participated, because in his opinion the three hostages freed thanks to the plan “they would have died.”
Donald Trump, who will take office tomorrow, has pressed since his electoral victory in November for Israel and Hamas to accept a ceasefire and his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, joined the negotiations with President Joe Biden’s team.
The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas came into force this Sunday at 11:15 local time (09:15 GMT) with the entry of humanitarian aid to the Strip and the release of Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher and Romi Gonen after 471 in Hamas custody in Gaza.
In exchange, Israel will release 90 Palestinian prisoners (women and children) in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
In this first phase, the success of the plan to end hostilities “will require persistence and continued support from our friends in the region, believing in diplomacy backed by deterrence,” Biden said this Sunday.
The outgoing president managed to present a peace agreement in Gaza shortly before Trump takes over from him in the White House this Monday and after months of unsuccessful mediation to end the humanitarian tragedy in the Palestinian enclave, which has endured 15 months of bombings and war due to the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.
(With information from EFE)
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