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The Gazatis received the peace plan proposed on Monday by the United States with skepticism and fear that it is a farce. In Israel, on the other hand, he unleashed a cautious hope of finally seeing the outcome of war.
The inhabitants of both sides reacted divided shortly after President Donald Trump announced his proposal of 20 points aimed at curbing the conflict of almost two years next to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the White House.
The plan demands a high fire, the release of the hostages by Hamas, the disarmament of that Islamist movement and the gradual withdrawal of Israel of the ravine Strip of Gaza.
“It is clear that this plan is unrealistic,” Ibrahim Joudeh, 39, tells AFP, since his refuge in the so -called Humanitarian Zone of Al Mawasi, in southern Gaza.
«It is written with conditions that the United States and Israel know that Hamas will never accept. For us, that means that war and suffering will continue, ”says this computer programmer, originally from Rafah’s southern city.
Abu Mazen Nassar, 52, is equally pessimistic and fears that the plan had as its objective to deceive the armed Palestinian features that participate in the war to free the captives retained in Gaza without offering peace in return.
«All this is manipulation. What does it mean to deliver to all prisoners without official guarantees that the war will be ended? ”He says.
“As a people, we will not accept this farce,” he says, and adds: “Whatever the decision made by Hamas now on the agreement, it is already too late.”
«As always, Israel accepts and Hamas rejects, or vice versa. Everything is a game, and the people pay the price, ”summarizes Mohammed to Beltaji, 47 and resident in Gaza City.
A few, like Anas Sorour, a 31 -year -old street vendor from Jan Yunis, in southern Gaza, also displaced to Almawasi, dare to have illusion.
«No hard war forever. This time I am very optimistic and, if God wants, it will be a moment of joy that will make us forget our pain and our anguish, ”he adds.
– “A lot fear” –
After the initiative, protesters in the coastal center of Tel Aviv, in Israel, waved American and Israeli flags along with banners with the faces of the hostages.
“I am more optimistic, although I still scare to be so optimistic,” says Hannah Cohen, aunt of the hostage murdered Inbar Hayman. “I am afraid to disappoint me again, a lot of fear, because we have suffered a lot with agreements that have finally exploited us in the face.”
Gal Goren, whose parents died during the attack led by Hamas, also expresses a cautious hope: “Today we try to be optimistic.”
«We were very happy to hear what Trump said. We were glad to know that Trump saw us, who listened to our request to end this war and bring all the hostages … at home, ”he adds.
Aviv, a 28 -year -old lawyer from Tel Aviv, said he hoped to see all the kidnapped returning home, the demilitarization of Hamas and the Israeli withdrawal of Gaza.
“I think that if Hamas does not accept this agreement, we must carry it out without it,” he says, adds that he wants to see an internationally governed area in the Palestinian territory without a future for that Proiraraní Islamist group, as Trump’s plan contemplates.
The unprecedented attack of Hamas of October 7, 2023 that unleashed the war caused the death of 1,219 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to the AFP count from official figures.
Of the 251 hostages kidnapped during that assault, 47 remain in Gaza, including 25 that, according to the Israeli army, are dead.
The retaliation offensive of Israel already leaves at least 66,055 Palestinians, also mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the territory governed by Hamas, which the UN considers reliable.
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