Hamas accepts proposal for Gaza Ceasefire

Context

Hamas has recently announced its acceptance of a ceasefire proposal put forth by Egypt and Qatar, signaling a potential breakthrough in the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict.

Key Highlights

• The concept consists of a three-stage truce, every phase lasting 42 days.
• It includes a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and a go back of displaced Palestinians to their houses in addition to an exchange of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners.

What is Hamas?

• Hamas is the biggest Palestinian militant Islamist organization and one of the two principal political parties in the region.
• Currently, it governs more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 
• Foundation: The institution changed into based inside the late 1980s, after the beginning of the primary Palestinian intifada, or rebellion, against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• Hamas as a whole, or in a few instances its military wing, is specifically a terrorist institution by Israel, the US, the European Union, the UK, and different countries.

Israel Palestine Conflict

• It is a many years long dispute between Israel and Palestine that commenced in the middle of the twentieth century while the Jews from diverse elements of the sector have been granted the homeland in present-day Israel by Britain.
• It is one of the global’s longest conflicts in which Israel has occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip which the Palestine country claims.
• Numerous attempts had been made to remedy the conflict as part of the peace technique by various groups of countries and the United Nation.
• With time, the countries around have normalized the ties with Israel by the Abraham Accord, Oslo Accord, and so on. 
• But the impasse nevertheless persists and the arena network is continual in its attempt to attain the two-state solution.

Present Conflict

• Backdrop of the recent assault: Hamas’s attack follows months of growing violence inside the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with stepped-up Israeli raids, Palestinian road attacks and attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages.
• Issue over Jerusalem: Israel considers the whole of Jerusalem as its capital and no longer simply part of it. But Palestinians don’t believe that and rather need it to be their capital of future independent Palestine.

Way Ahead

• Peace based on a “two-state solution” is much wished with the help of worldwide corporations and can simplest be executed from Israel-Palestine talks.
• Israel stated the deal did not meet its “core demands” and its War Cabinet has decided to retain the Rafah operation. However it would ship negotiators to Egypt to work on a deal. 

Source: The Hindu

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