News - Middle East: The Gaza Strip’s Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement says Donald Trump’s 20-point plan, which the US president claims is aimed at ending the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza, actually serves Tel Aviv’s strategic interests.          

Spokesman Mohammed al-Hajj Musa made the remarks to the Palestine Today newspaper on Wednesday concerning the proposal that was forwarded in late September.

“Trump's proposal is vague and achieves strategic objectives for the occupation,” he said.

Hamas, Gaza’s main resistance movement, and the regime reached an agreement during indirect talks in Egypt in early October aimed at implementation of the first phase of the plan.

In line with the accord, Hamas would hand over all the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza, besides transferring the territory’s control to a Palestinian technocratic body.

It has released all the living Israeli captives and handed over the bodies of the slain ones, with the exception of those, whose remains have been buried under tons of debris resulting from ferocious Israeli strikes.

The movement has been endeavoring every day since the deal’s implementation to retrieve the remaining bodies.

Musa also noted that the resistance has also “shown great flexibility regarding the administration of the Gaza Strip.”

“We welcome the administration of the Gaza Strip by a technocratic government through an independent Palestinian national decision.”

Palestinian officials have, however, warned that the proposal ignores the core issues of Israeli occupation, accountability for war crimes, and Palestinians’ right to self-determination and compensation.

Earlier this month, Washington circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution proposing creation of a so-called “International Stabilization Force (ISF)” in Gaza for at least two years.

The officials have expressed concern that such steps represented an effort to replace one occupation with another, merely swapping Israeli boots for foreign ones.

Musa asserted, “The acceptable force in the Gaza Strip must have its mandate from the Security Council and have a specific duration and authority.”

“The resistance insists on its position of rejecting any force outside this framework.”

The Islamic Jihad official reiterated his misgivings about the American proposal, saying Washington seeks to “to strangle Gaza politically and humanitarianly.”

He also expressed alarm that the Israeli military had refused to commit to agreed withdrawal processes or the humanitarian protocol and continued its violations of the ceasefire deal.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed since implementation of the deal during Israeli strikes that, experts have warned, continue to follow genocidal patterns.

The victims are among the 69,000-plus Gazans, whom the genocide has claimed since its onset in October 2023.

Source: Press TV