In a press conference held Friday in Beirut, a Hamas official criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s post-war plan in the Gaza Strip, stressing that it was doomed to failure.
Hamas leader Osama Hamdan told reporters, “For the next day in the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu presents ideas that he fully realizes will not succeed. Today he presents a paper in which he writes a set of his repeated ideas.”
Hamdan added, “This paper will not have any reality or any practical impact because the reality of Gaza and the reality of the Palestinians is decided by the Palestinians themselves.”
He continued, “Reading this paper and the decision to refuse to recognize any Palestinian state reflects two things that everyone must stop at, especially those calling for Oslo-style political settlements and others. The first is that he absolutely refuses to recognize a Palestinian state and refuses to recognize a Palestinian entity. This prompts the question of whether he and others like him… “Qualified for political discussion with the Palestinians.”
He explained that the second matter is Netanyahu’s insistence “on the separation between the West Bank and Gaza and on the separation between Jerusalem and the West Bank, and this means that this entity’s real plan is to seize and fragment the Palestinian lands.”
Netanyahu’s plan for the post-war period in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a plan for the post-war period in the Gaza Strip to the war cabinet on Thursday evening.
In this document, which AFP saw on Friday:
Israel in particular plans to maintain “security control” in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a hypothesis that the Palestinian Authority was quick to reject.
The document stipulates the dismantling of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements and the release of all hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip.
It also stipulates that Israeli forces will assume security supervision “over the entire western Jordanian region” by land, sea and air “to prevent the strengthening of terrorist elements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and to thwart the threats issued by them towards Israel.”
The plan also stated that after the end of the war, “the Israeli army will retain an indefinite freedom of action throughout the Strip in order to prevent the return of armed activity.”
The Palestinian Authority responded to the proposal through the official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, who considered that the plans proposed by Netanyahu “are aimed at continuing Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
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