Jerusalem (AP) – as Israel and Hamas Get close to a ceasefire agreementIsrael says that he wants to maintain soldiers in a southern corridor of the Gaza Strip – a situation that can derail the talks.
An Israeli official said that an excellent issue in the talks was a desire to place forces in the area during the 60-day Trus of Israel, including the East-West axis called the Israeli Morg Corridor. The officer spoke on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk with the media about the talks.
Keeping a foot deposit in the Morg Corridor is an important element in Israel’s plan Drive hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the south Towards a narrow health of the land along the border with Egypt, it has called the “human city”.
Critics fear that this step is a precursor Most of Gaza’s population transferred Among some 2 million people, and the Israeli government plans to maintain permanent control over the region.
Hamas, who still keeps dozens of hostages and denies a call to Surrender by Israel, wants Israel to withdraw all its soldiers as part of any permanent Trus. This is against the presence of any permanent Israel inside Gaza.
As part of the proposed Trus, Israel and Hamas will set fire for 60 days, some hostages will be freed during that time and more assistance will enter Gaza.
Previous demands by Israel to maintain soldiers In a separate corridor Progress on a ceasefire deal for months.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office refused to comment on how Morg was playing in the corridor ceasefire talks. Netanyahu was this week to discuss the ceasefire and other matters with US President Donald Trump in Washington, who pushed both sides to end the war in Gaza.
Israel’s desire to keep troops in Gaza was one of the conflict break points discussed by senior officials of America, Israel and Qatar on Tuesday, according to a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.
Trump said in response to the officials’ meeting on Wednesday, “We want peace. We want to bring the hostages back. And I think we are close to doing it.”
Hamas said in a statement late on Wednesday that the return of the Israeli contingent from Gaza was especially one of the remaining points in the talks, without mentioning Morg.
Morg Corridor is one in three that engraved Gaza
During its 21-month campaign in Gaza, the Israeli forces have seized the broader health of the land, including three east-west corridors who have engraved Palestinian Enclave.
In April, Israel seized Morg Corridor – In the name of a Jewish settlement, which was present in Gaza before Israel, withdrew from the region in 2005.
The corridor situated between Gaza’s southern city of Rafah and its second largest city, Khan Yunis, extends about 12 kilometers (7 mi) from Israel to the Mediterranean coast and is about 1 kilometer (half mile) wide.
At that time, Netanyahu said it was part of the strategy of “stepping from the steps of pressure” on Hamas.
Netanyahu told Morg “Second Philadelfi,” Referring to another corridor running along the border of Gaza with Egypt. Israel has repeatedly stressed that Philadelfi should maintain control to prevent cross-border weapons smuggling. Egypt denies that weapons pass through their territory.
Since the fall of the final ceasefire in March, Israel has also re -established control. Netzerim CorridorWhich is cut from the rest of the northern third region of Gaza and was used to prevent Palestinians from returning to the northern Gaza before the final Trus.
It was not immediately clarified how Israeli mixed soldiers in the ceasefire talks in Netzerim and Philadelfi Corridor Factor.
Morg allows Israel to install its population movement plan at the moment
The foot in Morg has effectively cut the Rafah region from the rest of Gaza.
Rafa, once thousands of people have been flattened and emptied in the city of tens of thousands of people, currently after Israeli withdrawal orders.
With situations, Israel says that he wants to transform the Rafah region into a “sterile area” free from Hamas terrorists, where he wants to transfer hundreds of Palestinians to “human city”.
Most of the population of Gaza has been displaced several times throughout the war and has been squeezed into small pieces of land. The rights groups look at the planned new push so that they can be forcibly moved to the south.
The idea of Israel is to use Morg as a screening zone to move to the south of Palestinians, to prevent Hamas from infiltrating the area, two think tanks, institute for National Security Studies and Missing researcher Kobi Michael. He said that Israeli soldiers would be allowed to work further in the north without Palestinian citizens.
A no-go for Hamas
Michael said that the step may allow Israel to increase pressure-and possibly defeat-up Hamas in Gaza, where the guerrilla-style battle continues Israeli soldiers for dogs. And, he said, he can formulate the basis to end the war, which Israel has vowed to continue until Hamas is destroyed.
But critics say that the plan to move the south of the Palestinians paves the way for the expulsion of Palestinians from the region and claiming to control it for Israel, a priority for the powerful far-flung officials of Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has said that any departure will be “voluntary”. But Palestinians and human rights groups fear that focusing the population in a region with a slightly infrastructure will create horrific conditions that leave no choice but to leave the Palestinians.
Michael Milsine, an Israeli expert from Palestinian affairs and former military intelligence officers, called a plan to transfer Palestinians via Palestinians through “crazy imagination” through the Morg Corridor. He said that existing dialogues may break on the demand of Israel as it indicates Hamas that the Israeli forces do not intend to withdraw the forces after the ceasefire ends, nothing will accept anything.
“For Hamas, it’s a no-go,” he said. “If they are conditions, I can’t see Hamas agree.”
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Associated press writer Amer Madhani contributed to this report in Washington.
Tia Goldenburg, Associated Press
