Israeli radio: Emerging Gaza ceasefire deal ‘complete failure’ for regime

The chairman of the Gevurah Forum, which represents some families of Israeli soldiers killed during the Tel Aviv regime’s genocidal war on Gaza, has told the Hebrew-language 103FM radio station that a potential Gaza ceasefire deal is “a complete failure” for the Zionist entity.

“The deal that is emerging will not be a complete victory, but a complete failure,” Yehoshua Shani, the father of slain Lieutenant Uri Mordechai Shani, a platoon commander in the 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade killed during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 surprise operation, said in an interview on Tuesday.

Shani, whose forum opposes truce talks between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas resistance group, expressed his disappointment with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and asserted that he could not confront incoming US President Donald Trump.

“He (Netanyahu) probably gave in to Trump's pressure,” Shani claimed, noting that the 75-year-old chairman of the Likud political party “is unable to stand up to Trump, who is leading to the problematic deal.”

According to him, they had already heard the details of the Gaza ceasefire deal for many months during meetings with the Israeli prime minister.

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“We were convinced by him that he also strongly opposes it, exactly the same deal that we are now hearing that the final details are being finalized,” the chairman of the Gevurah Forum said.

“This deal leaves close to 70 hostages who could be Ron Aradim,” Shani alleged, referring to an Israeli Air Force navigator captured in 1986 by Hezbollah and believed to have died in captivity in 1988. He added that the military pressure, especially in recent months, has been faltering.

“We are losing soldiers' blood because of the way the campaign is being conducted," he said, adding that the prime minister and the new minister of military affairs are "letting these things go on and not replacing the military leadership.”

This comes as Majed al-Ansari, Qatari Foreign Minister spokesman, said on Tuesday that the Biden administration and incoming Trump administration have been fully involved in recent talks and are working "in tandem" to ensure a deal happens.

On Monday, US President Joe Biden said a Gaza ceasefire deal could be struck as early as this week, though the Israeli military continues to hammer the Palestinian coastal sliver to deadly effect.

“In the war between Israel and Hamas, we’re on the brink of a proposal that I laid out in detail months ago finally coming to fruition,” the outgoing US president said in a foreign policy address.

“I have learned in many years of public service, to never, never, never ever give up,” he added. “We’re pressing hard to close this.”

Meanwhile, far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is calling on the regime’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich to resign alongside him if a ceasefire deal in Gaza is realized soon, according to his statement on Telegram.

“The deal that is taking shape is a surrender deal for Hamas … Therefore, I call on my friend Bezalel Smotrich to join me and cooperate in working against the deal,” Ben-Gvir said.

“My Jewish Power Party does not have the power alone to prevent the deal, but together it is possible. We can go to the prime minister and tell him that if he passes the deal, we will resign” from the administration.

Backed by the United States and its Western allies, Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Israeli regime in response to its decades-long campaign of oppression against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 46,584 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 109,731 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

On November 21 last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its deadly war on the blockaded coastal sliver.

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