hamas calls for end of war

 

Trump’s Win Is Likely to Prolong Gaza Talks Uncertainty 

Any major progress on a cease-fire will probably have to wait until after January’s inauguration, analysts said. Gazans said they were divided about whether Mr. Trump would do much to stop the war.

Gaza into further uncertainty, after a year of failed attempts by the Biden administration floundered because of irreconcilable demands from Israel and Hamas.

For months, leaders across the region — in Israel, Lebanon, Gaza and Qatar — have taken a wait-and-see approach to the U.S. election. It is unclear what will come next, but any firm advancement on a cease-fire, if there is one at all, would most likely be delayed until after Mr. Trump’s inauguration in January, analysts said.

The sense was that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel “was waiting for the results of the U.S. presidential election to make a move,” said Michael Stephens, a Middle East expert at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based research group. “Why would he give Biden anything now?”

More than 43,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, including thousands of women and children, according to health officials in the enclave, and Gazans had been skeptical about whether Mr. Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris would do much to improve their situation. The war was set off the Hamas-led attack last October in which the Israeli authorities said roughly 1,200 people in Israel were killed and about 250 were taken hostage.