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ISPI — MED This Week · 2025-10-30
This ISPI MED This Week roundup examines a Gaza ceasefire kept alive by US diplomacy but stuck between a nearly completed first phase of Trump’s 20-point plan and a far harder second one, with open questions over Gaza’s governance, Hamas’s disarmament, the International Stabilisation Force and Israeli withdrawal; contributors include Muhammad Shehada, Noa Shusterman Dvir, Gil Murciano and Omar Shaban. In his section, “The Gaza committee everyone wants – and no Palestinian faction can agree on”, Shaban describes the technocratic committee announced at the Egyptian-moderated Sharm el-Sheikh conference to run Gaza for an interim period: Hamas proposed a membership list after consulting factions other than Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority and Fatah rejected it, insisting that the committee be tied to the PA and led by one of its ministers. He argues that the committee “must be validated not only by Ramallah, but also by external stakeholders” (Israel, the US, the EU and key Arab and Gulf states), since its members will need to travel through Israel and work with Western diplomats and donors.
This ISPI MED This Week roundup examines a Gaza ceasefire kept alive by US diplomacy but stuck between a nearly completed first phase of Trump’s 20-point plan and a far harder second one, with open questions over Gaza’s governance, Hamas’s disarmament, the International Stabilisation Force and Isra…