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The victory tour of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran turned out to be painfully in the short term.
Only a few hours after announcing a ceasefire on Tuesday and proclaiming that “all the soldiers of the world” would study the successes of Israel in the attacks he authorized, there were heavy losses in the other War of Israel-against Hamas in Gaza.
Seven soldiers of Israeli Defense Forces (FRI) were killed when their armored vehicle was attacked near Khan Younis. In all, 30 Israelis were killed in Gaza since the FDI broke its ceasefire with Hamas in March.
Overall, the IDF says 879 of his soldiers were killed since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, a total which includes deaths against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
While the war with Iran lasted barely 12 days, Israel has been fighting in Gaza for more than 600, despite Hamas being a much smaller opponent. However, the longer the war takes place, the more the pressure is confronted with Netanyahu – inside and outside Israel – to conclude an agreement and bring the remaining hostages to the house.
Iran’s effective defeat can influence Hamas
Some observers in Israel believe that Iran’s effective defeat, the main benefactor of Hamas, could force the Palestinian militant group to reassess its ability to hold Gaza.
“This can open the way to an agreement, because Hamas looks around and sees their Iranian sponsors who have been withdrawn,” Dan Diker told Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
Diker’s Center engages in public diplomacy and lobbies in the name of Israel through the Middle East. He is in the file as opposing a two -state solution to the conflict over 70 years.
Like many Israelis, Diker says that he thinks that the figures of the Gaza Ministry of Health of 56,000 dead in Gaza are inflated and that the number of people hungry are also overestimated. (United Nations Consider the reliable number of deaths and other estimates Put it even higher.)
Diker says that he can see a scenario where the remaining leaders of Hamas in Gaza agree to live in exile, because the political and military aid of Iran is no longer available.
Israel and the United States claim That Iran has formed, financed and equipped with many Hamas activists involved in the attacks of October 7 who killed some 1,200 people.
A breakthrough?
Heading towards the NATO summit in The Hague Wednesday, US President Donald Trump has hoped for a breakthrough in negotiations.
But later, Qatari officials involved in mediation said they had not received any new offer on each side.
At the end of May, Hamas would have rejected an offer Presented by American emissary Steve Witkoff. He would have seen the progressive release of the hostages as well as the FDIs backing many parts of Gaza. He would also have frozen war for 60 days.
Hamas has been consistent in its permanent end requests to the fighting. While the group denied rejecting the proposal squarely, it stipulated unspecified changes that Witkoff called unacceptable.
Qatari negotiators would have organized indirect talks with Israel and Hamas to see what, if necessary, has changed in their position.
Discouragement in Gaza
In Gaza, where most people are now living in tents and simply finding enough food has become a daily struggle, most of those who spoke to the CBC News videographer, Mohamed El Saife, said they had lived too much efforts to cease to have a lot of hope.
“We are left behind and no one pays attention to us,” said Bakr Awda, 29.
“The negotiations are for nothing, they come and go and they add nothing,” said Abdul Hafez, 24.
However, President Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian authority, said that he thought there was a window to conclude an agreement in Gaza if Trump intervenes personally, as he did with The ceasefire Iran-Israel.
Internal pressure for Netanyahu
Netanyahu faces pressures from the interior and outside of the country to bring war to Gaza to a long -awaited conclusion.
Among those who pushed the hardest part of the family members of some of those who were detained by Hamas.
Up to 25 hostages would be alive in Gaza. A few hours after Iran’s ceasefire, many family members urged Israeli Prime Minister to extend it to Gaza.
“To conclude this decisive operation against Iran without taking advantage of our success to bring all the hostages would be a serious failure”, ” said a group of hostages families.
Critics on the left of Israel accuse Netanyahu of having maintained the war to ensure the support of far -right groups in the Knesset, so that he did not lose his majority and did not face an election. Netanyahu is also currently on a test Facing three accusations related to corruption.
His government previously declared that the main directives were still to release hostages, to destroy Hamas and to ensure that activists in Gaza are no longer threats. But he never expressed precisely when these conditions would be considered to be met.
External pressure
Some of the traditional allies of Israel in the West, including Canada, also apply pressure to end the war.
Several governments, including CanadaThe actions of Israel in Gaza have condemned – in particular the reduction of most deliveries of food and aid for almost three months – claiming that the refusal of such humanitarian assistance is a violation of international law.
In particular, Palestinian suffering in Gaza is rarely discussed on Israeli television or by government representatives.
Indeed, the Israeli government has accused the United Nations, international aid agencies and many private humanitarian groups of anti -Semitism for contradiating its story on the way the war takes place.
Unlike Iran, where most Israelis fully supported attacks, the more the war in Gaza continues, the more polarizing it seems with the Israeli public.
At the same time, members of the Israeli government, which includes influential members of far -right parties, Openly and regularly suggest The fact that destroying buildings in Gaza and developing people in tiny plots of land could be the first step in the mass movement of Palestinians to open the way for new Jewish colonies – is equivalent to ethnic cleaning.
War objectives
On Israel’s 12 channel 12, a Tuesday morning panel criticized what he considered to be the lack of clear objectives from Israel.
“I think that in the past 12 days, we may have been blinded by the brilliance of victory – so much so that our students have decreased, and we have stopped seeing this behind all this, there are still 50 hostages,” said Gilad Shalmor, one of the best correspondents in the chain, which included in his hostage accounts already suspected of being dead.
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Some Israelis commentators Believe that Netanyahu, the oldest Prime Minister in Israel, might want to take advantage of the success of the campaign against Iran and call a first election – but that could be difficult for him to win with hostages still in captivity, therefore a compromise on Gaza may be necessary.
“I do not believe that there will be elections before the resolution of the situation of the hostages of Gaza and the situation of Hamas,” said Diker.
