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Arab countries have already expressed concerns that the current separation could become a permanent partition of Gaza.

The fall of El-Fasher gave paramilitaries control over all five state capitals in Darfur, raising fears that Sudan would effectively be partitioned along an east-west axis.

“Sudan is now de facto partitioned into two competing halves,” said Alan Boswell, a Sudan analyst with the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.

The idea wouldn’t be to permanently partition Gaza, Avivi said, but to put pressure on Hamas to disarm.

The wounds of India’s bitter partition on religious lines, which created Muslim-majority Pakistan, have left traumatic memories.