“This is not the time to think about giving gifts to the Palestinians,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office spokesman Avi Hyman, commenting on a Washington Post report that the United States is developing a post-Hamas plan , which provides for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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“Here in Israel, we are still in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre,” he said in a briefing, adding: “Now is not the time to talk about gifts for the Palestinian people, at a time like this “to condemn the massacre of October 7th” after the Palestinian Authority itself has done so. Hyman stressed that “now is the time for victory, total victory over Hamas” and “any reflection on the day after Hamas will take place on the day after Hamas.”