“We cannot leave a vacuum,” said Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog. As the battle against Hamas rages in the Gaza Strip, he is already thinking about what will happen after the war.
Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog comments for the first time on the future after the war in an interview for the Financial Times. And it is becoming clear that Israel will likely maintain a presence in the coastal strip for a long time, even if Herzog does not say so.
To prevent Hamas from emerging again, a “very strong force” must remain there in the future, Herzog said, leaving open what this force might look like. “If we withdraw, who will take over?” the president asks, making it clear: “We can’t leave a vacuum there.”
The US should play a role
You have to think about a future mechanism. There are a lot of ideas about that right now: ‘But no one will want to turn this place, Gaza, into a terrorist base again.’ He assumes that the US and ‘our neighbors in the region’ will play a role in the post-war struggle. order.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will maintain control over security in Gaza even after the war. According to media reports, critical voices about the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip are not accepted (see video above).
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