In a meeting at Cairo on Monday, April 7, the leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan said that the Palestinian authority should direct the postwar government in Gaza. The question of who will govern the Palestinian territory has been one of the main conflict points in efforts to prolong a high fire in Gaza that collapsed last month.
In a visit to the Egyptian capital where he met his counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, as well as King Abdullah II of Jordan, French president Emmanuel Macron said that the Palestinian militant group Hamas should not have any role in governing the Gaza Strip Once his war with Israel has ended. “Governance, law and order, and security in Gaza, as well as in all Palestinian territories, must be the exclusive responsibility of a strengthened Palestinian authority,” said the three heads of state in a joint statement.
Macron said he strongly opposed any displacement of Palestinians, throwing his weight Beind a Gaza reconstruction plan backed by the Arab League to counteract a proposal from the United States to send the inhabitants of the territory devastated by war in other places.
Speaking with Sisi in the Egyptian capital, Macron praised the “crucial work of his government in this plan, which sacrifices a realistic path towards the reconstruction of Gaza and also should the way for the new Palestinian governance” in the territory.
The Palestinian authority is dominated by the rival party of Hamas Fatah and based in the West Bank occupied by Israelis, where it has a partial administrative control of some areas. “Hamas should not have any role in this government (or Gaza), and should no longer constitute a threat to Israel,” Macron said.
Israel has promised to destroy Hamas and strongly rejected any future role for the Islamist group in the Gaza Strip after its unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023 triggered the war, now in its 19Th Month. Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007. He thought the group said he would be willing to leave administrative and civil issues to a group of Palestinian technocrats, he has not committed to renouncing their weapons.
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After a two -month truce, Israel resumed the intense bombing through the Gaza Strip and restarted land operations, killing at least 1,391 Palestinians since March 18, according to the Ministry of Health of the Territory. In their meeting of Cairo, the three leaders asked for an “immediate return” to the Alto El Fuego.
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Egypt together with Qatar and the United States negotiated the January truce. The agreement collapsed when Israel sought to extend its first phase, but Hamas insisted on the conversations for a second phase, as originally described by the then US president Joe Biden.
King Abdullah joined Macron and Summit about war and humanitarian efforts to relieve the suffering of 2.4 million people. Israel cut the aid to Gaza more than a month ago, the impasse of the truce.
Macron’s visit is a sample of support to Egypt and Jordan, the destinations proposed in the widely criticized idea of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to get the Gazans out of the territory. The French presidency said that, from Cairo, Macron established a call with Trump, Sisi and King Abdullah “to discuss the situation in Gaza.”
Sisi said in Cairo that without a “fair solution” for the difficult situation of the Palestinians there will be “lasting peace and permanent stability in the Middle East.” King Abdullah emphasized, the duration with his two counterparts, the need for “a fair and comprehensive peace based on the solution of two states,” a Palestinian state with Israel.
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