Even if Israel and Arab clinch a deal to jointly rule postwar Gaza, it would be a temporary solution, Dr. Shaul Bartal, researcher at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, told Sputnik.
Significant progress on defusing the Hamas-Israel conflict remains elusive, Imad Salamey, an associate professor of political science and international affairs at the Lebanese American University, told Sputnik.
Hamas had declared that "people had to draw a line to end the occupation" and that Israel was still committing atrocities on Palestinian territory, particularly around the sacred site of Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem.