Israel's Defense Ministry said the country will no longer rule Gaza after the end of the war against Hamas terrorists. Israel Defense Forces/via Portal December 1, 2023
Israel will not rule the Gaza Strip if the War against Hamas terroristsbut rather a Palestinian institution, the Israeli Defense Ministry said on Thursday, contradicting statements by the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Hamas will not rule Gaza, Israel will not rule it Civilians in the Gaza Strip. “The residents of Gaza are Palestinians, therefore Palestinian authorities will assume responsibility on the condition that there are no hostile actions or threats against the State of Israel,” the ministry said in a statement.
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The note, which does not specify which Palestinian institutions would take control of the enclave, is part of a plan that Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant will present to the War Cabinet ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's next visit to Israel, traveling through the Middle East , to discuss the postwar period in Gaza.
Netanyahu He has repeatedly asserted that he has no intention of handing control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority (PNA), which governs small parts of the occupied West Bank through its President Mahmoud Abbas. “As long as I am prime minister of Israel, this will not happen,” he said in December, accusing the ANP of funding “terrorism.”
Even members of the most radical wing of Netanyahu's rightwing coalition have publicly defended the “emigration” of Gazans to other countries Israel's resumption of its settlement policy in the enclaveHowever, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday that “there will be no Israeli civilian presence in the Gaza Strip,” although Israel appears to be continuing the air, land and sea blockade imposed on the enclave since 2007.
“For security reasons, Israel will conduct an inspection of products entering the Gaza Strip,” the ministry said. Furthermore, Gallant predicts that an international front that includes the United States, Europe and Middle Eastern countries “will assume responsibility for the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip.”
The USA Israel’s most important partner want the ANP to have some control over Gaza after the war and advocate a twostate solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. The ANP lost control of Gaza in 2007, when Hamas terrorists violently seized power, due to cooperation agreements with Israel based on the Oslo Accords (19931995).
The company said it would resume management of the enclave only as part of a peace process with Israel that would see the creation of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and the West Bank and Gaza as constituent areas, far removed from the current reality.
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