YONI BEN MENACHEM -- Disagreements over the composition of the international force, gaps among the Palestinians, and the failure to fully implement the first phase are currently preventing progress.
Senior security officials say that the transition to the second phase of US President Donald Trump's peace plan is currently facing complex difficulties.
This is in parallel with intensive talks led by Egypt in Cairo with the Palestinian factions, with the aim of formulating a unified position regarding the "day after" arrangements for the war and the future of control over the Gaza Strip.
According to the American plan, the implementation of each phase is conditional on the completion of the requirements of the previous phase - so that any delay, even technical, entails a delay in the implementation of the entire agreement. One of the most prominent delays is the failure to return all the bodies of the kidnapped people held by Hamas.