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Source: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/peace-middle-east-major-challenge-united-states
Problems Abound for Trump's Gaza Plan
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Michael Singh - Hamas has already demonstrated it has no intention of hewing to the balance of Trump's Gaza plan, having spent the weeks since it took effect consolidating power and attacking Israeli troops, a far cry from the disarmament and dissolution the plan envisioned for the group. Other problems abound - Hamas has exercised a de facto veto on the membership of the "technocratic" committee being assembled to govern Gaza, and potential troop-contributing states have insisted they will only participate in a planned "International Stabilization Force" if it operates at the invitation of the Palestinian Authority and limits its activities to monitoring the ceasefire rather than enforcing law and order. The writer is Managing Director at The Washington Institute.