Netanyahu ran out of options to block ceasefire – Mustafa Barghouti
Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of political party the Palestinian National Initiative, believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu ran out of options to stop a ceasefire from being implemented.
“The ceasefire will happen. Netanyahu cannot block it,” Barghouti told Al Jazeera.
“He manipulated and tried to postpone it and to procrastinate because his main goal is to keep his government together. But it is very clear now that he cannot manoeuvre any more,” he added.
‘Israel is frustrated’ at inability to secure victory in Gaza: Analyst
Menachem Klein, senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, said Israel’s government and its military are still hoping for a victory in Gaza, but they are unable to achieve it.
“Israel – especially the army and the government – is looking for the victory. And they cannot achieve it,” Klein told Al Jazeera. “There is a huge gap between the war goals that Israel put forward and stuck to all along the war, and the agreement reached with Hamas,” Klein said.
“Israel is not winning the war and is trying to find, you know, some achievements – according to Israeli definitions, of course – during the minutes, the last days of this round of the war. That’s it. Israel is frustrated,” he said.
Klein told how right-wing activists have hung banners in Jerusalem that declare “this is not victory” – a message to Netanyahu and his declarations over the past 15 months of war on Gaza that “we will not stop till victory.”
Israel will ‘pay a heavy price’ for ceasefire deal: Israel’s top diplomat
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says he discussed the details of the recent agreement with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.
“Israel will have to pay a heavy price,” he said on X, without elaborating on what that entailed. “I emphasised that we will not accept Hamas rule over Gaza after the war, which would endanger Israel’s security and continue to also ruin the lives of the Palestinians themselves.”
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