2023-10-21 19:28:58
Shortly after the first ones 20 trucks with humanitarian aid entered the devastated Gaza Strip, much less than the desperate situation of their population demands, some thirty countries and multilateral institutions demanded Egypt a ceasefire to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” in power, as well as measures for reopen a political horizon and one day end the eternal cycle of violence in the region. During the summit, Arab countries also rejected any temptation byIsrael of forcibly transfer the Palestinians to the Egyptian Sinai from Gaza Despite diplomatic goodwill, the differences between Europeans and Arabs regarding Hamas, the low profile of the US or German delegations and particularly the absence of Israeli representatives left little room for the success of the summit.
The meeting came two weeks after this latest round of hostilities began, the most devastating in decades, triggered by the incursion of Hamas gunmen in the past October 7 in southern Israel, where they killed 1,400 people, most of them civilians executed in cold blood. Since then it is the people of Gaza who are mainly paying the price for the brutal Israeli response. “That maybe the time has not come to end the political illusion what’the state in which can it be maintained?” said the Egyptian president and organizer of the summit, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Al-Sisi proposed one full route to defuse the conflict, which has not seen a single attempt to negotiate since Benjamin Netanyahu regain power in Israel in 2009. A plan that includes thehumanitarian aid access to Gaza, followed by a high focus and the beginning of conversations based on the formula of the two States. Most Arab leaders expressed dismay at the killing of civilians in Israel, a reflection of how the region has changed, but also strongly condemned the “relentless” and “brutal” bombing of Gaza, as like the “collective punishment” and the “total siege” on the Strip, described as war crimes And they did not ignore the two ways to measure that some western countries are demonstrating in this crisis.
Western double vision
“The loud and clear message that is being heard in the Arab world is that the Palestinian life is considered less important than the life of Israelis and that the human rights they have limitations that depend on different borders, circumstances and religions”, stated the Jordanian monarch, Abdullah II. Among the guests was also the great missing person of this crisis, the president of thePalestinian Authority (ANP), Mahmud Abbàs, who rules the West Bank, where he is immensely unpopular. Collecting the warnings of Al-Sisi and the chancellor of theSaudi Arabia on Israel’s possible intentions to expel the Palestinians from Gaza, Abbas was firm. «we won’t leave and we will stay in our Arab land,” said the octogenarian Palestinian leader.
Spain and Italy were among the few European countries represented at the highest level. Pedro Sánchez called for a ceasefire,the release of the hostages held by Hamas and access to help humanitarian “This summit must serve as the first step to restore peace in the region and break this terrible cycle of violence,” said the president. “If the international community does not act, the situation can worsen dramatically.” This is the great danger that hangs over the current conflict, one regional expansion of unpredictable consequences.
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Faced with the balance of the majority so as not to ignore any of the parties, others such as the British chancellor or the president of the European Council they emphasized the Israel’s right to defend itself in this crisis, although emphasizing that it must be kept within the limits of international law. “We have to make sure that Hamas does not win because the peaceful coexistence triumph”, said the British James Cleverly ignoring that this coexistence does not exist and not only because of Hamas. “We cannot ignore the wider context of these tragic events: the long ongoing conflict and the 56 years of employment with no end in sight», explained the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, who called for an immediate ceasefire.
This cease-fire, however, is neither present nor expected. The US has already derailed two ceasefire resolutions to the UN to give time to Israel, which is preparing its troops to soon enter Gaza, an adventure that will be known how it begins but not how it will end.
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