Once Hamas is defeated, Israel must have a “very strong” force in Gaza to prevent the Palestinian terror group from dominating Gaza again. Israeli President Isaac Herzog said this in an interview with the Financial Times. “If we withdraw, who will take over? We cannot leave a vacuum. We have to think about what the mechanism will be,” he explained. “There are many ideas, but no one will want to turn this place, Gaza, into a terrorist base again,” warned Herzog. The Israeli president’s statements follow comments from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated that Israel must maintain control over security in Gaza “for as long as necessary” and ruled out any role for the Palestinian Authority (PNA) in governing, according to The Strip the war. Some in his far-right government went even further and spoke of the need to restore the illegal settlements to their original condition
before the withdrawal in 2005. Israel’s strongest ally, the United States, has said in recent days that the Palestinian Authority should take control of the Gaza Strip once the conflict is over and has repeatedly warned that Israel is the “enclave.” “was not allowed to “reoccupy”.