Why did the Hamas-Israel Carison did not hold

The Israeli fighter jets unleashed a wave of bombing through the Gaza Strip at night, tearing into a fragile truce, which took place most since entry into force in January.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overnight laid the blame on Hamas’s door for the renewal of his deadly air campaign.

The Israeli leader’s statement said the military was instructed to take “strong action” against Hamas after their “repeatedly refusing to release our hostages”, as well as the rejection of US proposals.

In the local press, Israeli military sources also talked about monitoring Hamas’s increase in regrouping their forces in recent days.

While the truce, which was held mainly last night, employees of the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza said more than 140 people had been killed by Israel in the two months since it entered into force in January.

In recent weeks, the Israeli military has said that they have repeatedly achieved goals that have identified as Hamas fighters, are a threat to their troops located in Gaza.

But the reasons for Netanyahu’s decision to return to Hamas’s attack is the subject of dispute.

The hostage forum and missing families accused the government of “complete fraud” by stopping from a deal “which could bring everyone home.”

While some of the prime minister’s most solid critics suggest that the attacks are an attempt by Netanyahu to be distracted by the damage to the legal and political crises that he confronts the home closer.

The most critical is that there is a fundamental dispute between Israeli and Hamas about who is to blame for the failure of the latest efforts to progress for the cessation of fire.

The fire termination deal on January 19 has been thrown away for many months, such as the US, Catari and Egyptian mediation, and a detailed three -phase plan for how the truce should move on.

The first phase saw that Hamas released 33 hostages in exchange for Israel, launching about 1900 Palestinian prisoners and allowing help and other goods to enter the Gaza Strip.

As the weapons were silent and thousands of displaced Gazani returned home, Hamas and Israel had to start negotiations to start the second phase.

The parties agreed that negotiations for the second phase would include the release of all other hostages, as well as the complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, leading to a constant end of the war.

The first phase ended on March 1, but negotiations for the next stage did not make progress.

Instead, Israel imposed a full suspension of all the aid entering Gaza, causing a wide international alarm – and said it supported a new proposal collected by the United States.

In Qatar last week, the delegations of Israel and Hamas gathered to negotiate how the armistice would progress and the US envoy, Steve Vikof, presented his new “bridge proposal”, which would expand the expired first phase.

More hostages will return home in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners – but the most important thing is that negotiations for a constant end of the war will be delayed.

Here is a central element of why the truce has broken up.

Israel’s two key goals – to return the hostages and beat Hamas – are not fully achievable together.

Hamas, speaking roughly, has one card to play in the negotiations: The hostages. They do not want to release more hostages in the next stage of the cessation of the fire, unless this includes Israeli troops that begin to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, as agreed in the original truce.

Israel resists this. The new proposal in the United States is an attempt to extract more hostages, while delaying the commitment to end war and the question of whether Hamas will remain in some form.

In recent days, the United States and Israel have thrown Hamas’s preferences to adhere to the conditions of the original fire termination transaction – instead of renegotiating their conditions – as a “refusal” to extend the cessation of fire.

Vitcof accused Hamas of “publicly claiming flexibility, while privately made demands that were completely impractical without constantly ceasing the fire.”

While in late February, Israeli officials have already informed the local press that his military will not withdraw from key sites in Gaza in violation of the fire termination agreement.

Although we cannot know the details of negotiations on the negotiations that took place behind closed doors – what we know is that Israel stops the aid entering Gaza 17 days ago was an attempt to force Hamas to offer new discounts.

This has not worked so far, and now it seems that Israel has returned to violence to try to get a new deal that is more favorable to its political leaders and one that offers a fewer Hamas victories.

From now on, the Gaza situation will probably seem different by the last two months of the truce.

This morning, the Israeli military published a map that ordered the Palestinians to leave a huge area around the perimeter of the Gaza Strip, where thousands of Gazanne have undoubtedly returned.

Hamas, for his part, called for an Israeli military operation to stop and did not say that he would return to the battle.

However, a BBC journalist near Israel’s border Gaza was today said by a soldier that a call was published for 40,000 reservists of the Israeli army to present himself as a duty. This seems to confirm reports in the Israeli press that the military is preparing for a refreshed ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.

The pursuit of an updated campaign in Gaza also presents political grace for Prime Minister Netanyahu. This morning, the heavy right -wing Jewish party announced that it would return to the coalition, its members, including former Minister Itar Ben Guir, resigned in protest of fire. Creating their cooperation will be crucial to the government as it seeks to accept its current budget.

Israel’s operations last night may have been a one -off attempt to force Hamas to retreat to the negotiating table. However, this may also announce the beginning of a fierce wave of battles on Earth again, the anxious tired Gaza families and concerned about Israeli families for hostages.