Gaza 6-month ceasefire plan on the table; optimism about Cairo talks

The ceasefire talks in Gaza have resumed once again in Cairo with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar, and consultations to end this war are underway, and a new plan for the ceasefire has been proposed.

In this context, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper wrote in a report, noting that the most important proposal regarding the ceasefire was presented by the Egyptians and some clauses by Qatar: A plan based on the exchange of prisoners and bodies between the Zionist regime and Hamas in one stage and the declaration of a 6-month ceasefire has been put on the table.

According to this report, a delegation of all Hamas Central Council members has traveled from Doha to Cairo for these negotiations, and Hamas has shown a positive approach to this proposal. At the same time, representatives of the Israeli regime in Cairo have also shown a positive approach to this plan. Although officials from both sides have not taken a position on this issue, it is not far-fetched to expect that Tel Aviv will once again obstruct the ceasefire process.

According to this ceasefire plan, during the six months of cessation of the Israeli regime's attacks on Gaza, negotiations on the future of the strip will be held within the framework of the Arab peace plan that Egypt presented at the emergency meeting of the Arab League.

The plan that Egypt put on the table at the March 4 meeting of Arab leaders in Cairo was a two-stage plan for the future of Gaza, in which the first stage will be the removal of rubble from Gaza over six months for three billion dollars. Also, during these six months, when a council of technocrats will govern Gaza, aid will be provided to 1.5 million people in Gaza, and one of the key parts of this aid, in addition to food, medicine, fuel, and water, is the sending of 200,000 containers for the refugees.

Of course, the second stage of the Egyptian plan is more complicated. The reconstruction is to be carried out by Egyptian companies, with workers from Gaza, at a cost to the GCC countries estimated at more than 50 billion dollars. The plan seeks to build 500,000 housing units for three million people in Gaza after five years, while the financing of this mega-project is still in limbo.

Although the Egyptian plan discusses the disarmament of armed groups in Gaza (clearly Hamas), it has received relative support from Hamas because, unlike the Zionist regime's plan, it opposes the displacement of Palestinians.

The Zionist regime opposes the Egyptian plan and, in return, is pursuing a plan called "Riviera Middle East" that was provided to the US foreign policy team by a Jewish professor in the US, the main goal of which is to relocate Gazans to Somaliland in the Horn of Africa.

However, reports indicate that the Zionists have shown more flexibility in this period of consultations in Cairo compared to the negotiations of previous months regarding the ceasefire. It seems that the disorganized state of the Israeli army after the rebellion, the lack of ground forces to control the situation, and the resistance's attacks on the Israeli military in Gaza have made them interested in returning to the negotiating table.