Yedioth Ahronoth: Netanyahu set basic conditions but made significant concessions and concealed the truth from the public
Yedioth Ahronoth revealed disturbing details about the Gaza peace agreement, claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set basic conditions but made significant concessions and concealed the truth from the public.
Yedioth Ahronoth wrote that Netanyahu’s basic conditions for ending the war included Hamas’ complete surrender, but that “Hamas wasn’t disarmed, nor was Gaza disarmed, nor was the Strip emptied,” according to documents reviewed.
Yedioth Ahronoth asked, “If these conditions were essential, why did Netanyahu give them up?” An intelligence source said, “The agreement is considered a success, but there are very profound concessions”.
The source, who maintains close contact between the intelligence community, the defense establishment, and the political echelon, added, “The public is entitled to honest answers to the remaining core questions, which the government and Netanyahu’s campaign appear to be struggling to answer”.
These matters weren’t written to claim that the agreement is bad or that it shouldn’t be signed now.
On the contrary, the return of the prisoners to their homes is the only thing that will mark the beginning of a journey that will change the course of Israel and the entire region for the better, but there is a good reason behind all this effort to convince us all that black is white and night is day, according to the intelligence source.
Yedioth Ahronoth commented on a document published on the government website last Friday afternoon, a summary of a government decision made following a ministerial survey.
It stated, “Everything the government did not want the public to know—for example, the precise withdrawal maps, the mechanism for monitoring agreements, and a comprehensive investigation into the bodies that Hamas claims it cannot locate—was transferred to the secret annex”.
Yedioth Ahronoth continued: “For example, the agreement signed in Sharm al Sheikh, first reported by Gili Cohen on Channel 11, contradicted an Israeli source and two sources from the mediating countries”.
The first section begins with the statement that “President Trump will announce the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, and that the parties have agreed to implement the necessary steps to achieve this goal”.
The beginning of Article 2 states: “The war shall end immediately with the consent of the Israeli government… All military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment and offensive operations, shall cease”.
None of this is mentioned in the published government resolution… This is a significant difference in the substance of the agreement: the US plan explicitly speaks of ending the war, while the government resolution portrays the entire operation as a plan to release all Israeli hostages.
The differences are also evident in the terminology – between “withdrawal” and “deployment,” Withdrawal implies a permanent move, while deployment maintains operational flexibility and emphasizes the impermanence of the change of location.
The Israeli government’s decision stipulates that the release of prisoners and transfer of bodies won’t take place until all hostages are received, contrary to the US account of a parallel move.
Yedioth Ahronoth concluded that everything the government didn’t want the public to know about the precise withdrawal maps, the international and multilateral mechanism that would be established to monitor the implementation of the agreements, and a comprehensive investigation into the fate of the bodies that Hamas claims it cannot locate was transferred to the secret annex.
