Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he wanted “something different” from the Palestinian Authority, currently chaired by Mahmoud Abbas, to govern the Gaza Strip after the war he is waging there to “wipe out” the Palestinian movement Hamas.
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“There cannot be an agency headed by someone serving more than 30 days after the massacre [du 7 octobre]She still hasn’t convicted him […]. Something else is needed. But in any case there must be a security check,” the leader said in a televised speech.
“We need complete security control with the ability to enter whenever we want to drive out terrorists who may re-emerge,” he stressed.
“There will be no civil authority teaching their children hatred of Israel and hatred of Israelis,” he said.
The Palestinian Authority and Israel have often been accused of teaching violence and hatred or demonizing the other in their curricula.
“The next day Gaza will be demilitarized, there will no longer be a threat from Gaza to Israel. The October 7 massacre clearly demonstrated that a return of terror will take place in any place not under Israeli security control,” he continued.
“This has been confirmed in the West Bank,” the other Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory where the Israeli army has been increasing its incursions since the start of the war into the heart of cities theoretically under the sole control of the Palestinian Authority.
The West Bank is geographically separated from the Gaza Strip, which has been bombed relentlessly by Israel since October 7 in response to the Hamas attack.
The Hamas attack, which was of unprecedented violence and scale since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, left around 1,200 dead on the Israeli side, most of them civilians killed on October 7, according to figures. Israeli officials.
According to the Hamas Health Ministry, Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip have claimed more than 11,000 lives, mostly civilians.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 180 Palestinians have been killed by fire from Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank since October 7.