The Israeli prime minister, speaking alongside his war cabinet, wanted to stress that even though this deal was likely going to happen, it does not mean an end to the fighting, nor an end to the war.
He said that after these days of pauses, as stipulated in the agreement, are over, the fighting will continue, and that the days that they are not striking will actually be a time for the Israeli army to recuperate themselves, so they can have more battle and attack plans going forward.
But the deal doesn’t come without some opposition. Ministers on the far-right are opposing the deal and saying that they will not vote for it. The country’s Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have both said that this is “bad for Israel’s security”.
They wanted the deal to be on Israel’s terms and believe that there were perhaps too many concessions given in the form of the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Jordan says increased military presence amid fears of West Bank expulsions
Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh said the country would resort to “all the means in its power” to prevent Israel from implementing any transfer policy to expel Palestinians en masse from the occupied West Bank.
The Israel-Gaza war has piqued longstanding fears in Jordan of further forced displacement of Palestinians. Jordan is already home to a large population of Palestinian refugees.
“Any displacements or creating the conditions that would lead to it, Jordan will consider it a declaration of war and constitutes a material breach of the peace treaty,” Jordanian state media quoted Khasawneh as saying, referring to a 1994 pact between Jordan and Israel.
“This would lead to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and to harming the national security of Jordan,” Khasawneh said.
Jordan in 1994 became the second Arab country after Egypt to sign a peace accord with Israel, but relations have plummeted amid the rise of what is widely considered Israel’s most right-wing government in its history