Fecha Publicación: 04-03-2024

Recent developments and the humanitarian situation in Gaza are refocusing the world’s attention on a conflict doomed for decades to loiter on the second page of international newspapers and to stagnation in multilateral fora. The situation in Gaza is not an isolated development; the war in Sudan, the conflict in Ethiopia, and the chronicles of clashes in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen are alarms that started to ring years ago and have not found an end.[1] So, how do we overcome the liability of the moment? So far, profound variations of geopolitical trends have introduced a new stage for vanguard diplomacy, military calculations, and the spread of factual powers.

The occupation of Gaza became a veil for armed groups or political opposition forces across the region to reinforce or reestablish their operations in a belt that begins in the Syrian Mediterranean and touches the Afghan ridges, even when they were not linked with Hamas, Israel, or Palestine.[2] The Non-state actors opportunistically insert their agenda and narratives wherever instability becomes visible. They act as the temperature control of conflicts, raising and lowering tensions against or in favour of the influencers to get concessions, legitimacy, and power. Hamas’s operation in southern Israel activated a new stage of crisis in the history of the conflict in Gaza; meanwhile, the intervention of Hezbollah will be the determinant in regulating tensions in the coming weeks buffering the direct involvement of third nations.

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