Netanyahu’s Post-War Plans for Gaza Call for Military Occupation ‘Without Time Limit’
The Israeli Prime Minister also wants to deploy troops
along the border with Egypt
by Kyle Anzalone February 23, 2024
Israel has released its first draft of its plans for
post-war Gaza. Throughout the four months of a brutal onslaught, Israeli forces
have decimated the Strip and killed 30,000 Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s post-war plans call for “operational freedom of action in
the entire Gaza Strip without a time limit” and “demilitarization” of Palestinians.
The Israeli government first released the document to
some media outlets on Thursday. According to the translation from NBC News, the document says, Israel will “maintain its
operational freedom of action in the entire Gaza Strip, without a time limit,”
and “The security perimeter being created in the Gaza Strip on the border with
Israel will remain as long as there is a security need for it.”
Israel is also requesting control of the border
between Egypt and Gaza. Netanyahu’s plan may face resistance in Washington and
Cairo. Egypt has demanded that Israel not deploy its forces along the border.
The US has asked Israel not to expand buffer zones in Gaza. However, Tel Aviv
has ignored nearly all of Washington’s requests over the past four months with
no impact on US aid shipments to Israel.
Netanyahu says he will not allow the rebuilding of the
Strip to begin until the Palestinians have been “deradicalized.” Additionally,
Tel Aviv plans to have complete control over the future political system in
Gaza. Netanyahu says the Strip will be fully demilitarized.
President Joe Biden has requested that Netanyahu allow
Arab states to finance the reconstruction of Gaza and allow the Palestinian
Authority (PA) to govern Gaza in the process of creating a sovereign Palestine.
Netanyahu’s proposal did not mention the PA.
The Israeli government has repeatedly stated that it
will not allow the PA to control Gaza or the Palestinians to have a state. In
the statement released by the Israeli government, Netanyahu says, “Israel
utterly rejects international diktats over a final-status agreement with the
Palestinians.”
Netanyahu additionally plans to shut down UNRWA, the
main aid agency in Gaza, that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians rely on for
survival. Tel Aviv recently accused the UN Relief and Works Agency of employing
12 people who took part in the Hamas attack in Israel. However, a US
intelligence community assessment only endorsed the claim with “low
confidence.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com,
news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
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