That’s What She Said🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

A few days ago, Hamas told the head of the Executive Committee of the Board of Peace, Nikolay Mladenov, that it refuses the proposal presented to it via mediators to engage in any amount of disarmament. The terror group made it clear that its weapons can only be surrendered as part of a permanent resolution of the Israel and Palestine conflict and that it views the disarmament proposal as an attempt to twist its arms into accepting the unacceptable. Furthermore, Hamas said that it wants to separate humanitarian issues from political topics, expecting Gaza’s recovery and reconstruction to happen regardless of its status as a political entity or governing body in the coastal enclave. This not only shows that Hamas has always been unserious about the twenty-point vision and plan for ending the war, but it confirms what many have already predicted about the Islamist group. Hamas will never disarm or cease to be a terror organization because armed resistance is the only thing that differentiates it from the PLO, Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority. The likely scenarios for what comes next are as follows: 1- The maintenance of the status quo, in which Gaza is on the back burner, and Israel continues limited strikes against Hamas while the Strip is held together by a patchwork of humanitarian organizations, humanitarian aid, and commercial supplies and goods going through the Kerem Shalom crossing. 2- Because of Hamas’s intransigence and refusal to accept a core tenet of Trump’s ceasefire plan, he may give Netanyahu the green light to resume full military operations in Gaza to finish “the job” (so to speak). This would pose the most dangerous risk to the Strip’s 2 million residents, who are squeezed into ~45% of the territory that’s under Hamas’s control 3- A gradual return to military operations in Gaza against Hamas that begins with the progressive and steady transfer of the population from Hamas-controlled zones to the green zone beyond the “yellow line.” This would allow for an approach that may reduce civilian casualties while allowing for methodical clearing and holding of territory under Hamas’s control. Regardless, Mladenov, the Palestinian technocratic committee (NCAG), and the Board of Peace will not act in Gaza or proceed with any meaningful projects until and unless Hamas is dealt with. There is a limited chance that some mediators close to Hamas may be able to exert pressure on the group to compromise, but that is both a low-probability event and, if successful, will amount to little more than symbolic acts that don’t truly disarm the terror group.

Did you know that more foreign aid money was spent in the Gaza Strip over the past two decades than anywhere else on earth per capita? Virtually nothing to show for the billions spent by the Arabs and the international community to develop Gaza, while Hamas's terrorism and "resistance" destroyed all hope for a better life. هل تعلم أنه تم إنفاق أموال مساعدات أجنبية في قطاع غزة أكثر من أي مكان في الكرة الأرضية عبر العشرين سنة الماضية لكل فرد؟ لا يوجد الكثير لنعرضعه نتيجة هذه المليارات من أموال العرب والمجتمع الدولي التي أنفقت لتنمية غزة في حين دمر إرهاب و"مقاومة" حماس كل أمل بحياة أفضل.

NEW: Palestinian journalist Mohammad Sayed was among at least six people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a police checkpoint in Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Friday. Others are believed to be police officers.