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Wed 22 Jan 2025 8:39 am - Jerusalem Time
Who will rule Gaza after this genocide?!

What Israel has done in the Gaza Strip leaves no room for any Palestinian party or organization to control the Strip, assume power in it, and play alone after this massacre and the war of extermination that Israel waged for 471 days on the Strip, during which it destroyed people, trees, and stones, and claimed the lives of about a quarter of a million Palestinians, between martyrs, wounded, missing, and prisoners, and wiped out 88% of the Strip’s buildings, institutions, and infrastructure.
This prompts me to say, with complete impartiality, that neither Hamas nor Fatah can assume power in the Gaza Strip after this war has ended, through a humanitarian truce, not a political one, of course, and an agreement on a rolling deal for a ceasefire, not a cessation of war, distributed over three stages during which the Israeli hostages in Gaza will be exchanged for the release of approximately 1,650 Palestinian prisoners from the occupation’s prisons, with a gradual and conditional withdrawal of Israeli army forces from the Strip, the flow of relief aid, and reconstruction in the final stage of Gaza.
Therefore, in my opinion, any Palestinian party that claims alone that it is able to do everything that the Gaza Strip needs and requires with the announcement of a ceasefire, is either out of touch with reality, or it still believes that the time of Tom Cruise is here to stay and that it is possible to impose its arrogance, policy and approach of domination, exclusion, rule by force, and military and security grip on our afflicted people in the Strip.
I believe that whoever wants to take over the government in the Gaza Strip, without national consensus and away from political partnership, and seeking to try to reproduce the era of rule before October 7, and not taking into account the circumstances and reality of our people who are living a tragedy, suffering and a real catastrophe after the worst war known to humanity in modern history, and the resulting moral and material consequences and psychological, social and health effects that will cast their shadows on the Palestinian citizen in the Strip, and the consequences of that on the Palestinian national situation as a whole, is like someone who is punishing those residents of Gaza who were able to stay alive and survive until this moment after this hell.
The complex and bitter reality, the accumulation of crises, problems and many issues that have plagued the Gazan reality throughout the fifteen months of this massacre and genocide, have formed new concepts and visions in the collective mind of the Gazans. In my opinion, this requires a Palestinian national leadership from the womb of suffering and the shadows of the tent, which believes in the project of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and is well aware and realizes that what this war has left behind on the political and national situation on the one hand, and on the humanitarian, social, psychological and economic reality of the Gazans in the Strip on the other hand, is much greater than the idea of hegemony, control and acquisition by this party or that.
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