President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza is stuck in first gear, and while a tenuous ceasefire is holding, none of the long-term underlying issues are close to resolution.
Per “phase one” of the agreement, Israel has retreated to a security buffer zone comprising about half of Gaza, leaving Hamas to brutally reassert itself in a rump state, where it is killing opponents, trying to rearm and vowing to carry out another bloody terror attack on Israel as soon as it can.
The next phase of the process — in which Hamas is supposed to disarm and turn power over to an unnamed group of Palestinian technocrats — is stalled, and it’s unclear how or when it will begin, or who will enforce it.
Meanwhile, Hamas and its estimated 25,000 militants continue to fire on Israeli forces, clearly itching to provoke Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a major response that the terror group can use as fodder for its propaganda war.
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