It is impossible for Hamas to disappear as an idea: head of Israel’s National Security Council

MADRID(EUROPA PRESS) – The head of Israel’s National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, stressed that “it is impossible” to make the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “disappear as an idea” if there is no alternative to its dominance in the Gaza Strip.

“It is impossible to make Hamas disappear as an idea,” he said, before emphasizing that “it is not only necessary to damage its military capabilities,” days after Army spokesman Daniel Hagari made similar statements in this regard.

“The alternative idea is a local leadership that is willing to live next to Israel and not dedicate their entire lives to trying to murder Israelis,” Hanegbi said, according to the Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’, without the Israeli Government taking any action. has so far spoken about these statements.

In this sense, he stressed during an event at the University of Herzliya that Israel’s plan for “the day after” in Gaza will begin to be applied soon and has argued that “we should not wait for Hamas to disappear, since that is a long process”, as reported by ‘The Times of Israel’.

“The moment Hamas’s ability to operate military and civilian systems as it was able to do on October 7, there will be more ability for countries that want to see an alternative government in Gaza, with local leadership, to join the process” , he has argued. “It’s starting to take shape,” she said.

Hanegbi’s words come less than a week after Hagari noted that it is not possible to “destroy” Hamas as an “idea” and stressed that the Palestinian group will remain in power in the Gaza Strip if “the (Israeli) Government can’t find an alternative.” Hamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. You can’t destroy an idea. It is rooted in the hearts of the people; Anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong. If the Government does not find an alternative, it will remain,” he said.

After these words, the office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, highlighted that both the government and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “are committed” to the destruction of Hamas’ military capabilities, without making direct reference to Hagari, in the midst of the latest public clashes between the Executive and the Army regarding the offensive against Gaza.