Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that any future deal with Hamas must allow Israel to maintain control of the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi Corridor.
The demand is Netanyahu’s latest effort to sabotage the chances of a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas. Axios reported on Thursday that it came after negotiators reached a compromise on the Philadelphi Corridor.
Netanyahu previously said any deal must not allow weapons to be smuggled into Gaza from Egypt. According to Axios, Egypt just agreed to build an “underground wall” to seal tunnels going into Gaza, and the US agreed to fund it. But Netanyahu’s new demand throws a wrench into the negotiations.
“We will not allow the smuggling of weapons to Hamas from Egypt, first and foremost through Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor and the Rafah Crossing,” Netanyahu said at a graduation ceremony for Israeli officers.
The condition for Israel to control the Philadelphi Corridor goes against Hamas’s demand that Israel must withdraw from Gaza and agree to a permanent ceasefire. According to media reports, Hamas has softened its stance slightly on the issue of a permanent truce, but Netanyahu’s insistence on the ability to restart his genocidal war has also set back that progress.
“Any outline must allow Israel to return to fighting until all the objectives of the war are achieved,” Netanyahu said at the ceremony. His stated “objectives” include the elimination of Hamas, which his own military says is unrealistic.
Hamas has warned that Israel’s escalations across Gaza and the latest massacres of Palestinians would only harden their positions. Hamas official Hossam Badran told AFP that Israel was trying to “pressure negotiations by intensifying bombing operations, displacement, and committing massacres.” He said the Israeli escalations “compels us to adhere to our demands.”
In Washington, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said an agreement was a long way off. “This is a complex negotiation with a lot of moving parts and a lot of details to be worked through. So I think there’s still miles to go before we close, if we are able to close,” he said.
Israel insists on violating their peace agreement with Egypt. That's the headline btw.
Actually,Egypt previously violated the peace treaty by bringing masses of heavy weapons into Sinai.Also by tacit tolerance of weapons flows into Gaza via their tunnels.
No need to import weapons into Gaza.
The Al-Qassem and Al-Quds brigades make their own weapons. Plenty of videos showing their simple workshops in the (ever expanding) underground fortress. They are now using unexploded munitions courtesy of the IDF to Fashion landmines among other weapons.
It’s also been suggested given the deep divides within Israeli society that disgruntled IDF supply units are also selling weapons and supplies to the resistance.
Only it is happening.
I have a hard time believing the second statement, however, it has been shown that the brigades are utilizing duds, bombs that did not go off, for reverse engineering for their own weapons. They are fighting much like the resistance in France against the NAZIs in WWII. Guerilla warfare is different from head on confrontational battle as is taught in military schools in the U.S. The Israeli answer is to bomb the sh*t out of every area, killing more and more innocents.
Given the extreme intercine fighting among various Israeli sub-groups – it’s likely the runors are true.
Those heavy weapons were brought in by Egypt with the blessings of ISrael and the US i. Order to fight ISIS terorists.
Referring to events after Oct 7-antiaircraft missiles are useless against ISIS,but usefull against Israel.
After Oct 7, Israel was in wild breach of the peace, and Egypt ought in all justice to have attacked Israel. It still might. It might get a lot of help to do that, too.
Israel delenda est.
Inshallah!
One can only hope that Egyptians will rise up and overthrow the dictator Sisi.
Then Egyptians can once again support the Palestinian freedom struggle and hold their heads high!
Gaza needs those weapons in order to kill the IDF terrorists committing genocide in Gaza.
Death to Israel!
The man is unhinged.
Sealing the border to hinder arms flows to Hamas-very sane if it can be achieved.
Seems like there’s a deal to be made here — Gaza gets its border sealed, as long as Israel gets its border sealed too. Of course that would mean a lot of Israelis fleeing non-Israel areas like Jerusalem, etc. to get back within the country’s borders before the sealing takes place.
The man is unhinged because to be in control of the Egyptian border and violating Egyptian sovereignty.
And, the Abraham Accords.
The border is divided between Gaza and Egypt-both sides share it.
The border belongs to the Palestinians because Gaza is Palestinian.
You don't object weapons to be delivered to Israelis, do you? They use them to kill defenseless women and children living in tents, nothing wrong with that, right? They need 2000 pound bombs to destroy tent city.
Egypt just agreed to build an “underground wall” to seal tunnels going into Gaza, and the US agreed to fund it.
Unfuckingbelievable.
They already had these so called UG walls and Hamas made holes through them…!
Many of the tunnels were constructed by Israel. I think it was Ehud Barak who admitted it.
Every move we make adds more and more to the deficit. Peace pays dividends. Wars are wasteful, and do not stop the next war from springing up. It is a racket. Major General Smedley Butler penned a book specifically saying that. I have read it 5 times. Each time it is as if I read it for the first time. War is a Racket.
Demand all you want… Not gonna happen…!
Facts on the ground.
You going to be telling us that when the resistance liberates Jaffa, Deir Yassin, Bethlehem, and Beersheba ?
This rhetoric of "resistance" and "liberation" is old fashioned. The "resistance just got 38,000 Gazans killed, who knows how many maimed,Israel shifting to the right,and Gazans reduced to starving in rubble. Deir Yassin no longer exists, Jaffa is quite free as an ethnically mixed city,Bethlehem is already an Arab city. How many lives are you willing to throw away for this so-called liberation? Is genocide Ok when its perpetrated against some and not others? Jordan seized the old city of Jerusalem,until it was liberated by brave,bold wise Israeli soldiers.
You didn't answer the question.
resistance" and "liberation" is old fashioned. .? Wishful ever in denial thinking. Resistance will always be there against criminal occupation and genocide and never stop as long there is oppression no matter who well funded and armed the occupation forces are.
you are live in denial and pretend there are non-stop violent rampage against in the west bank cities by Israeli to terrorist settlers aided and abated by the Israeli government and the IDF.
A recent Human Rights Watch report says settler violence in the occupied West Bank has doubled since the 7 October attacks. Photographer David Lombeida stayed with Palestinian families facing threats and abuse from settlers encroaching on their land
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/west-bank-settler-violence-a-photo-essay
”A landmark mosque in the ancient city of Jaffa, adjacent to Tel Aviv, was vandalised overnight by a group of right-wing Israelis, reported Wafa news agency.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220429-right-wing-israelis-vandalise-landmark-jaffa-mosque/amp/
A Armenian Christian church in Jerusalem is under siege by settlers to remove them, causing damage to the church. A Greek Orthodox church was leveled several months ago.
Lancet estimated that the most moral army on the face of the earth has potentially killed more than 186,000 innocents. It was planned by the Zionist administration, knowing full well when the breakout was coming. The plan was to execute the "final solution" to the Palestinian "problem", and not find Hamas or negotiate with Hamas for the release of the hostages for the release of the thousands in Israeli jails, "detainees", some who have been in the dungeons for years. Not wanting to negotiate, the Hannibal Directive was ordered high up the governmental food chain to kill the hostages. Kill they did. With tanks, Apache Helicopters, wild shooting IDF reservists. The Netanyahu government does not want to negotiate, so, he will have the "war" keep going until all of the hostages are dead. Now, if there is an exchange of hostages, a cease fire, Netanyahu has said that the massacre of innocents will continue. It did not have to happen this way. On 8Oct, Israel could have re-sealed the border. Not go on a genocidal spree.
Israel had every right to punish the genocide perpetrated by Hmas and free hostages.
You can't possibly mean that the attack by Hamas on Oct 7th was an attempt at genocide so you must mean they "perpetrated" the genocide that Israel is now DOING to the Palestinians in Gaza. Nice that you admit that Israel is guilty of genocide but odd that you think that genocide is acceptable under any conditions.
Hi wars. Be careful about using logic in an illogical situation, involving hearts and minds, along with spirituality.
Americans have every right to punish the Zionist traitors in our midst.
Palestinians have the right to kill as many Israelis as required to free Palestine.
Hamas didn't perpetrate genocide, Zionist.
All Zionists have is lies and brutality.
Time to end Israel.
The Israelis killed most of the victims Oct. 7, not Hamas, the Zionist-Israelis finally had to admit it. But Jake would sooner die than admit it.
Have the Israelis admitted the “most” part? I thought they had just copped to “some.”
More than half of the victims. They had the kind of weapons, including helicopters and tanks to do it, Hamas did not have it. And not to forget the Hannibal order. They have not denied it, if nothing else, they want to let sleeping dogs sleep.
They don't deny it anymore.
They have no right to massacre a nation, and you know it, no matter how long you compete your lies.
Hamas did not commit genocide, the IDF did and still does, the undisciplined IDF thugs are sadistic criminals, every pilot bombing civilians is a war criminal. Israelis have turned into a nation of brutal monsters.
Prof. Mearsheimer calculates the estimate is minimum, more like 250 000 casualties and even that figure is conservative.
Argue your genocide case at the ICJ. Until then you are just blowing smoke
Common human decency and morals are not old fashioned. You are truly a crazy and complicit war criminal. You are a deranged follower of a deranged, criminal megalomaniac monster.
You are shallow minded simpleton individual.
“ Importantly, the expression “possession is nine-tenths of the law” isn’t literally true—it is a rule of force and, perhaps, a truism of human nature, but it is not a law.
A person in mere possession of something does not, necessarily, have a nine times greater claim to the object over someone else.“
https://wolflawcolorado.com/posession-nine-tenths-meaning/
A lot of dead IDF on the ground in Gaza.
Here's to many, many more!
You can't be normal.
Like I said over and over during the JCPOA "negotiations": There will be no agreement.
Abby Martin in horrifying report from Hebron – crowds chanting kill them all. Children saying it’s good to kill all Arabs. This what 30 years of the Likud has brought Israel
https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1812208603840835887