Khaberni - Exclusive sources for Al Jazeera Net revealed details of a comprehensive plan for disarmament in the Gaza Strip, delivered by the former UN envoy Nikolai Mladenov, based on a multi-stage gradual path, which relies on the principle of parallelism in implementation between Israeli actions and Hamas commitments, within a specific and detailed timeline.
According to the document obtained by Al Jazeera Net, the plan does not treat the disarmament file as a separate action, but integrates it within a comprehensive political and security framework, based on a "step-by-step" approach, where transition from one stage to another does not take place unless synchronized execution by both parties is completed, ensuring the balance of obligations is maintained.
The plan starts with a set of general principles, the most prominent being the necessity to fully complete all arrangements in the first stage, allowing the entry of reconstruction materials into areas verified to be free of weapons, alongside adopting a governing formula based on the principle of "one authority, one law, one weapon". It also stipulates the gradual transfer of the Gaza Strip's administration to a national committee that will take over administrative and security powers during the transitional phase, while the process of enumeration and collection of weapons is subject to international supervision and field verification mechanisms.
The timeline of the plan, spanning several months, outlines a gradual path beginning with a comprehensive cessation of military operations, accompanied by urgent humanitarian measures from the Israeli side, in exchange for Hamas's commitment to halt its military activities and enable the national committee to begin its work within the sector. This stage serves as a preliminary phase to prepare the field and political environment for transitioning to subsequent stages.
However, the second phase, extending from the sixteenth to the sixtieth day, represents the crucial turning point in the plan, where the actual implementation of the disarmament process begins. In this phase, Israel carries out field withdrawals from areas within the strip and allows an expansion of aid and reconstruction material entry, while Hamas commits to begin enumerating heavy and medium weapons within specified areas, providing detailed information about their locations, alongside a full cessation of military activities, and withdrawal from the security scene in favor of the national committee.
The document indicates that progress in this phase is subject to careful monitoring, since the transition to the next step cannot occur until the commitments are fully executed, making this the most sensitive and complex phase of the plan, given the interplay of security and political dimensions.
With the transition to the third phase, the Israeli measures expand to include additional withdrawals and broader facilitations, while Hamas continues the process of enumerating heavy weapons, gradually beginning their handover under the supervision of the national committee, concurrently with the transfer of more security powers to civilian entities. The fourth phase witnesses wider withdrawals of Israeli forces, in return for the completion of the enumeration of all types of weapons within the sector, and the end of any organized military presence in the cities.
The plan concludes with a fifth phase, during which the disarmament is completed fully, concurrently with almost complete withdrawal of Israeli forces to external lines, establishing a new security reality based on civilian administration free from armed manifestations, with continued international monitoring of the final arrangements' implementation.
The data in the document shows that the plan heavily relies on international verification mechanisms, and a Palestinian national committee supervising the implementation, in addition to a potential role for an international stabilization force, reflecting a trend towards internationalizing the security file in the Gaza Strip and linking it to the reconstruction process and reshaping governance structure.
This conception, according to observers, represents an attempt to reshape the security and political reality in the sector, by dismantling the military structure of factions in exchange for a package of humanitarian and administrative measures, within a gradual process subject to the balance equation between the parties, and contingent upon the commitment to implementation in the most sensitive stages, especially the second phase, which marks the beginning of actual transformation in the disarmament path.
