Published On 22/11/2025
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The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that the Security Ministerial Council decided to form a small ministerial team to work on implementing the second phase of the agreement to stop the war on Gaza.
She added that the crew will include Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and others.
The three ministers share extreme right-wing backgrounds and positions that reject the establishment of a Palestinian state, as Smotrich called for the occupation of Gaza and the expansion of settlements, while Ben Gvir denied the existence of the Palestinian people and opposed the agreement in the first place.
Israeli Channel 12 said that Energy Minister Eli Cohen protested during the government meeting, yesterday, Thursday, against not appointing him to the ministerial staff, and voted against the decision.
The formation of the new team that will implement the Israeli vision for the second phase of the agreement came days after Security Council Resolution 2803, which adopted US President Donald Trump’s plan, stipulating the establishment of a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the entry of humanitarian aid without obstacles, and reconstruction, in addition to creating a reliable path that allows the Palestinian people self-determination and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The formation of this team raises questions about the mechanisms for implementing the second phase, which is supposed to include a permanent cessation of war, the introduction of aid, and reconstruction, especially with the statements of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for committing war crimes in Gaza – to implement the agreement with an iron hand, as he put it, which includes “disarming Hamas and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli Minister Ron Dermer previously held talks with the American side aimed at granting Israel freedom of movement in Gaza, even despite the implementation of the second phase.
Give a chance
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post newspaper, that Israel must show that it has given Trump’s plan a real chance through diplomatic means, and if it fails, it can move militarily with much stronger international legitimacy.
Sa’ar added that the United States does not make decisions in Gaza on behalf of Israel, noting that maintaining the ceasefire now is an Israeli interest.
Israel still occupies more than 50% of the area of the Gaza Strip within the ceasefire agreement, as what is known as the yellow line separates the areas where the army is deployed and the areas inhabited by Palestinians.
Since the ceasefire entered into last October 10, the families who returned to their destroyed homes have been living in a state of instability and fear, due to the continued artillery shelling and shooting from Israeli military vehicles in the eastern areas of the city.
During the past few days, the Israeli occupation army carried out car bombing operations in the eastern areas of the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shuja’iya neighborhoods, which led to the destruction of large areas that it still occupies east of the Yellow Line, and transformed the adjacent areas into extremely dangerous areas.
For its part, the Hamas movement said on Friday that Israel is intensifying operations to blow up and destroy residential buildings in the areas under its control under the ceasefire agreement in the eastern Gaza Strip, in a systematic process of annihilation of the remaining aspects of urbanization.
This came in a statement by the movement’s spokesman, Hazem Qassem, in response to widespread bombing operations carried out by the Israeli army since dawn on Friday, in a continuing policy despite the agreement.
Qassem described the policy of blowing up residential buildings as criminal, stressing that it constitutes a flagrant violation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
The mediators guaranteeing the agreement called for real action to stop these dangerous violations of the Sharm El-Sheikh Agreement regarding the Gaza Strip.