“I fear we won’t reach the end of Phase 2 and Phase 3 of this ceasefire agreement, any more than we got to the end of the Oslo peace process.’
A child inspects the damage of his destroyed family home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. Over the course of the war in the Gaza Strip, I’ve occasionally quoted a linguistics scholar in Gaza, Mohammed Alshannat, who is pretty much the opposite of Hamas.
I understand this exhausted man’s heartbreak, after months of hunger and homelessness and seeing his son injured. The ceasefire is welcome, but there’s no clear path forward and not much to celebrate.The Gaza war has been a tragedy and a failure for all. Hamas committed horrific atrocities in October 2023 that didn’t empower Palestinians but left them in misery.
Too many people denounce the atrocities of one side while making excuses for those on the other. Hamas kidnapped an 8-month-old Israeli baby, Kfir Bibas. And Palestinian children have been “killed, starved and frozen to death,” the U.N. chief for humanitarian affairs, Tom Fletcher, said, with more than 3,000 children younger than 5 killed in Gaza, according to Save the Children.
Meanwhile, negotiators on Gaza pushed the knottiest issues to later phases of this agreement. That’s what Middle East negotiators always do, because it’s the only way to get anywhere. But I fear we won’t reach the end of Phase 2 and Phase 3 of this ceasefire agreement, any more than we got to the end of the Oslo peace process.Trump wants to ‘just clean out’ Gaza, send refugees elsewhere
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