Researcher Luís Tome highlights that the Peace Summit, which is being held this Saturday in the New Administrative Capital of Egypt, to find a solution to end the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, has an optimistic discourse, but it will not be decisive. for a “ceasefire.”
The meeting took place the same afternoon that the Israeli army promised to “intensify” bombing of Gaza, in preparation for the next phase of its offensive in the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.
Luís Tomé admits that he was surprised by the words of Egypt’s leader, Abdel al-Sisi, who stated that the country wants to move forward with a “roadmap to relaunch the peace process.”
The director of the International Relations department of the Autonomous University considers it difficult for this to happen, especially because the main actors in the conflict are not sitting at the table.
“I found it quite optimistic that the Egyptian President, host of the summit, found and proposed – I had the expectation – that the leaders, the participants in this summit, reach an agreement on a roadmap to end what he called ” humanitarian catastrophe”. I have many doubts about the possibility of this roadmap being agreed from here and even more doubts that it will have practical effects on the ground, because this roadmap implies not only the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, but a ceasefire. agreement,” he says, in statements to the TSF.
Luís Tomé regrets the absence of Israel, Iran and the United States, highlighting that “the participants in this summit are a kind of non-players.”
“The main actors do not participate and, no matter how many calls for a ceasefire are made, without Israel being present and without Israel giving its agreement, it does not seem to me that it can have any practical effect,” he adds.
At this summit, the leader of the Palestinian Authority warned that any attempt to expel Palestinians from the territory where they have always lived will not be tolerated.
Luís Tomé clarifies that Mahmoud Abbas is trying to reinforce the role of the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip, where the first wave of humanitarian aid arrived on Saturday morning, in the form of 20 trucks with food and medicine.
“Knowing that it is not only questioned by the Palestinians – even in the West Bank – but also that it generates some expectation that in the long term, after this conflict, the Palestinian authority will see its control over the Gaza Strip reestablished, once the Palestinian Authority Palestine was expelled by Hamas in 2007.
International Relations professor Luís Tomé recalls that it is Israel that has the power to decide when more humanitarian aid will enter the Gaza Strip again.
“If Israel realizes that humanitarian aid does not favor Hamas, does not consolidate Hamas and internal and external support for Hamas in the Gaza Strip, it will make it easier for other humanitarian aid convoys to follow, even due to great pressure If, on the other hand, Israel considers that this aid is going north, it consolidates the position of Hamas territory in the north of the Gaza Strip, that the population remains there and perhaps some of the things do not even end up civilians, but rather to Hamas operations, Israel will continue trying to stop humanitarian aid,” he says.
Luís Tomé’s analysis of the Peace Summit, which brings together several world protagonists in Cairo, in particular the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, who called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
Source: TSF
