On June 1, after concluding the campaign in the Jabalia area in northern Gaza, the Israeli army advanced deeper into Rafah in southern Gaza. Analysts said that the above moves by Israel could “drench cold water” and extinguish hopes for peace prospects under Israel’s new ceasefire plan that was just announced by US President Joe Biden and supported by world public opinion.
Israel stresses conditions for ending conflict
Earlier, on May 31, US President Joe Biden announced that Israel had presented a roadmap for a comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of the hostages. The proposal includes three phases, starting with a “full and comprehensive” ceasefire lasting six weeks. During this period, Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza and the hostages - including the elderly, women and wounded - would be exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian civilians would return to Gaza, including northern Gaza, and 600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid would enter the Palestinian territory every day.
In phase two, Hamas and Israel will negotiate the terms of a permanent end to hostilities. President Joe Biden said the ceasefire “will remain in place as long as negotiations continue.” Phase three will include a major reconstruction plan for Gaza.
Immediately after Washington announced the proposal, which is believed to benefit both Israel and Palestine as well as the long-term security of the region, on June 1, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron welcomed Israel's proposal, considering it an "important opportunity" to end the conflict. According to Reuters, speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto said Indonesia is ready to send peacekeepers to enforce a ceasefire in Gaza if requested.
The Hamas Islamist movement also issued a statement affirming its readiness to engage “positively and constructively” with any proposal based on a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
However, the Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that the conflict will only end when Israel achieves all its goals, including releasing all hostages and destroying Hamas' military capabilities and apparatus.
According to Euronews, while Israeli forces continue to launch attacks on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, Egyptian, US and Israeli officials are expected to meet in Cairo next week to discuss plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
Give Palestine more power in WHO
In another development, at the 77th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), countries voted unanimously to adopt a draft resolution on granting more rights to Palestine in the World Health Organization (WHO), similar to the previous move of the United Nations General Assembly.
The draft resolution, put forward by a group of mainly Arab and Muslim countries, along with China, Nicaragua and Venezuela, calls for granting Palestine, which has observer status at the WHO, nearly all the same rights as full members. The 77th WHA also adopted a resolution on the same day urging the WHO to take action to address the growing health needs in the Gaza Strip. According to multiple sources, WHO member states voted overwhelmingly in favor of the draft resolution, which calls for a donor conference on health needs in the Palestinian territories, and also recommends more reports on the “catastrophic” situation in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s “unprovoked destruction” of “health facilities.”
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