Not occupation, but control: Benjamin Netanyahu has specified his plans for the Gaza Strip after the end of the Middle East conflict. ‘We don’t want to occupy it. But we want to give him and ourselves a better future,” the head of government added. To achieve this, Hamas must be destroyed and the coastal enclave demilitarized, deradicalized and rebuilt.
According to Netanyahu, the Israeli army should have control of the Gaza Strip after the war. “I think the Israeli army is doing an exceptionally good job,” Netanyahu said on Fox News.
“Israeli army will maintain control of Gaza Strip”
“We do not want to rule the Gaza Strip. We don’t want to occupy it. “The Israeli army will maintain control of the strip, we will not hand it over to international forces,” Netanyahu added Friday during a meeting with representatives of Israeli border towns.
There is no concrete schedule yet
There is no concrete timetable for this yet, “because it may take more time,” Netanyahu said. According to his ideas, a civilian government could be installed in Gaza even after the end of the war in Israel. But there is one condition for this: the Israeli army, the Prime Minister made clear, must have access at all times to nip any terrorist organizations in the bud. Netanyahu had made similar statements the day before.
A senior adviser to Netanyahu said last week that Israel is not seeking a continued occupation of the area. But there must be an Israeli security presence so that the army can carry out operations depending on the threat, Mark Regev told US broadcaster CNN.
The Saudi crown prince criticizes Israel’s actions in Gaza
Meanwhile, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has criticized the Israeli army’s actions in the Gaza Strip for the first time. His country condemns “the military aggression in the Gaza Strip, the targeted attacks on civilians and the continued violations of international humanitarian law by the Israeli occupying forces,” the de facto ruler said Friday during a meeting with African heads of state and government.
It was Bin Salman’s first public statement on the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas since the Palestinian organization’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7. Saudi Arabia underlines the “need to end this war and forced displacement and create the conditions for returning to stability and achieving peace,” he said.
Baerbock: We must work with the Gulf States on a peace solution
Summits of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the situation in the Gaza Strip are scheduled for Saturday in Saudi Arabia. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) on Friday called on the Gulf states to work with the West on a peace solution for the people of Israel and the Palestinian territories. “All people have an interest in peace and in living in dignity. “All people have the right to live in peace and dignity,” Baerbock said.
Source: Krone
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