Speculation about the future of the Gaza regime has increased following the response to calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. Until now, there have been three main views on this point. The first position concerned the Zionists, who followed a “neither Fatah nor Hamas” strategy and sought to completely annex or partition the Gaza Strip through the implementation of the “General” plan. In this plan, the Americans aimed to eliminate Gaza’s resistance and turn it into an economic zone under the “Deal of the Century” plan.
The second plan was carried out by the European Union (EU) and supported an alternative to Hamas, the Palestinian Authority (PA), while maintaining borders. The plan was supported by Paris and Riyadh. Finally, the Americans’ plan was revealed. According to the plan, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was to take control of administrative and security issues in place of Hamas, with the cooperation of international forces and part of the Gaza civilian army. Although there is some speculation about the future of Gaza, so far American sources maintain that the Biden administration’s plans are now likely to be implemented in Gaza.
On January 14, 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken expressed his views at the Atlantic Council on current developments in the West Asian region, in particular the war in Gaza and the future of the Palestinian territories. He said the Palestinian Authority (PA) would be reformed and immediate issues would be managed by selected people in the Gaza Strip in cooperation with international forces, including providing public needs and rebuilding health networks, education and water. He argued that it would. , Palestinian Authority (PA) forces are to work with Israeli and international forces to control security issues in the region.
In his speech, Blinken asserted that after the al-Aqsa attack, the United States and Israel would no longer allow Hamas to dominate Palestinian Authority affairs.
Before a plan to set up a temporary wharf to send humanitarian aid to Gaza failed, the main option was Mohammad Dahlan, head of the Palestinian Authority’s preventive security department in Gaza and a Fatah official opposed to Mahmoud Abbas. It was one. But today, it seems that he has fewer chances in this regard. The security official, who is close to the Palestinian Authority, UAE and Egypt, has been on Turkey’s blacklist for some time due to his close ties to conservative Sunnis and Mossad. In recent months, media reports close to the UAE and its Western allies have fueled rumors that Washington and London may agree to a joint plan to hand over control of Gaza to the security chief.
In an interview with The Economist, Dahlan refused to accept the Gaza regime’s proposal, saying that the future government of the West Bank and Gaza Strip should be controlled by a technocratic government, one that would also include people from Hamas and Fatah. He said that. According to the New York Times, the plan would see Saudi and Emirati security forces oversee the rebuilding process of the enclave after the technocratic regime takes control of Gaza.
Salam Fayyad, an economics graduate from the University of Texas, is also a candidate to run Gaza. The man, who has the backing of Paris, Washington and Tel Aviv, was previously a former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. He is one of the few Palestinian leaders to condemn Hamas’ actions and express sympathy for the Zionists after the stormy Al-Aqsa operation. Israeli state radio also recently mentioned the technocrat as a leading candidate to run Gaza.
Another option is Hossein al-Sheikh, currently secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). One of the founding members of the political committee for the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the Oslo Peace Treaty (1993), he is now leading the charge from other competitors with the support of Riyadh. I hope to take over. of Gaza. Like other figures in the Palestinian Authority (PA), he believes in cooperating with the Zionist regime to alleviate the pain and suffering of the Palestinian people, even as he criticizes the October 7 operation. Hamas identified him as an Israeli official, Al Jazeera reported.
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Among the proposed candidates, one whose name is heard more often than others is Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian political leader convicted and imprisoned for deadly attacks on Israel. According to several reliable news sources, Hamas appears to have claimed Barghouti’s name among the prisoners released from the Zionist regime’s prisons. Rumors about Barghouti’s release and appointment as head of the Palestinian Authority or Gaza come after the Hamas movement in early February demanded the release of all prisoners in Palestinian prisons, especially security prisoners, in exchange for prisoner exchange negotiations with Israel. It actually got stronger. Liberation of Zionist prisoners of war. Marwan Barghouti was one of the prominent leaders of the first and second Palestinian intifadas and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004.
At the time, President Barghouti emphasized the continued armed resistance against the Zionists. He was one of the key figures in the process of signing an agreement between members of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in which he called for: Formation of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.
In a survey conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research, 90% of participants called for Mahmoud Abbas to resign as head of the Palestinian Authority. Barghouti was named the most popular Palestinian leader. Perhaps for this reason, Prime Minister Netanyahu and right-wing members of his cabinet have no interest in releasing him. Some analysts believe that Tel Aviv wants to separate the West Bank and Gaza Strip at all costs and has no interest in unifying these two regions under the shadow of a popular figure like Marwan Barghouti. That’s what I think.
conclusion
Assuming that the Palestinian Authority (PA) returns to the Gaza Strip, a scenario of expulsion from the Gaza Strip seems not far from expected. When Israeli forces withdrew from the Palestinian territories in 2004 and handed over political control to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Hamas movement and Islamic Jihad came within a short time of winning elections and taking control of politics through the democratic process. It only took three years. Opinion polls conducted among people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip show that the Hamas group and its leaders are extremely popular among the Palestinian public.
On this basis, the Zionist regime appears to be facing two bad options when dealing with the future of Gaza. Firstly, to accept the popularity and role of Hamas in the future of Gaza administration, and secondly, to return to this area and this area. It would succumb to severe human and economic losses that could exacerbate the rift between the military and the Zionist regime’s cabinet. Considering the rapid rebuilding of Hamas’s military wing during the war with the Zionist regime, this process will take place even more quickly during the ceasefire period, with the Zionist army formally confronting the new army. It seems that it will be. Developments in the coming weeks and months will reveal which actors will ultimately take over the administration of the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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