The Gaza Strip seems very poorly served by the Palestinian Authority, let alone Israel. But, the area has relatively stable borders and it would likely have a stable government in Hamas. So, what if Gaza just declared independence as the government with sole control over the Gaza Strip?
Would Gaza get recognized by other countries? Could it parlay the recognition into forcing a permanent peace with Israel as becoming a recognized country puts Israeli treatment of it into more known sections of international law?
Palestine, like Taiwan, has a non-voting representative in the UN. It’s effectively its own country save for the key players of the Security Council recognizing them.
But I’m not talking about Palestine declaring themselves a country, but the Gaza Strip as independent of both Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
They are not going to declare independence from the whole Palestin, very unlikely so. Even though they are separated from the West Bank, they have a lot of supporters there. People in the West Bank even voted in majority for them in 2006. The only reason they can’t rule the West Bank is because Fatah has greater number of henchmen there and Fatah got the support from Israel and the West to cling to power.
Currently if you study the maps of their movements, their forces is moving towards the West Bank, at one time just 10km from it. And they have been making many pleas in the social media to invite those in the west bank to join them. So, they’ve been quite a number of incidence of attacks in the areas around the west bank, indicating that they are gaining more supports.
So the trend now is for them to unite instead of separated into different entity.