‘Isolated’ Israel seeks to sabotage peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria
Tamer Qarmout, an associate professor in public policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says the situation in Gaza with Israel’s ongoing ceasefire violations is “not an ideal situation”.
But overall, the momentum generated to secure a UN Security Council resolution gathering international support behind Trump’s plan and a peacekeeping force is important, he added.
“It is also not great news for Israel,” Qarmout told Al Jazeera, “which historically has had an upper hand in dictating the politics of this region, but now it has to share decision-making with the US and other powerful forces”.
“What we see is Israel in a sabotage mode. It is trying to sabotage the arrangements to establish peace in Gaza under the UN security mandate. It is constantly trying to sabotage any peace-making in Lebanon, and it is also expanding its influence in Syria as well,” Qarmout added.
“This is an angry Israel. An isolated Israel, that is now, more or less in confrontation with Trump,” he said.
Are they though, it seems more like Trump is handing Israel Gaza on a silver platter while pushing the possibility of Palestinian statehood further out of reach. It's not a peacekeeping force Trump's plan is calling for. It's to do the dirty work, disarming any resistance which the IDF has failed to do in 2 years of its genocidal campaign.
This 'confrontation' is just another good cop bad cop routine like with Biden, while both are pushing for the same ultimate goal, ethnic cleansing, steal the land.
Top Dutch diplomat says Gaza ceasefire ‘holding’ despite expected violations
Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel has said he believes the ceasefire in Gaza “is holding”, telling reporters that there would be violations, but that Trump’s plan, which was endorsed by the UN Security Council this week, had more support than any plan in the past.
“It won’t be easy,” he told reporters at a meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels. “Now, we have a plan on the table that offers peace, stabilisation and a path to a two-state solution,” he added. “We should get behind this plan.”
It's not a ceasefire, demolitions continue, daily killings of Palestinians continue, aid blockade continues, and now Israel is expanding the 'green' zone, moving the yellow line taking more territory.
The Netherlands is complicit in the genocide as many other European countries.
UN reports 7,500 airspace violations by Israel in Lebanon during truce
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) also says Israel’s military is responsible for 2,500 ground violations by troops during the year-long ceasefire with Hezbollah.
UNIFIL added 360 “abandoned weapons caches” from Hezbollah have been handed over to the Lebanese army since November 2024.
“All these violations are reported to the UN Security Council,” it said in a statement.
Israel continues to occupy at least five points on Lebanese territory following its invasion of south Lebanon last October. A ceasefire agreement reached in November stipulated that Israeli soldiers should withdraw from south Lebanon, but that never happened.
Founded in 1978, UNIFIL was created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops after Israel invaded southern Lebanon earlier that year. Israel would reinvade in 1982 and occupy south Lebanon until 2000, when Israeli forces were expelled by Hezbollah.
