ToI’s Avi Issacharoff has written an analysis piece citing Hamas’s bid for a humanitarian truce as a sign that it might be starting to crack.
“There’s no surrender and white-flag-waving,” but the call for a truce “is a sign of significant distress,” he writes.
What’s changed the organization’s mind, from rejecting a truce to seeking one? “Likely the pressure of Gazan public opinion,” he notes.
“The Gazan public is exhausted and being forced to deal with a situation that is akin to an earthquake: thousands of homes completely destroyed, thousands more damaged, and more than 1,050 people dead (including hundreds of gunmen) and 6,000 injured, according to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Health Ministry — and all this on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, a major holiday on the Muslim calendar.
“Given the dire situation on the ground when Israel offered to extend Saturday’s humanitarian truce through Sunday, it’s safe to deduce that too many Palestinians did not like the organization’s initial negative reaction.”
Read the full piece here.
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