Mark Regev, senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Christiane Amanpour of CNN this Tuesday (7) that Israel’s post-war plan is not a “continuous occupation” of Gaza.
“I think you could expect something more fluid, something more flexible, where we can come and go as needed to deal with the security situation,” Regev said. “We are not talking about any kind of continued occupation of the Gaza Strip,” he continued.
Asked about Netanyahu’s comments on “ABC News” last Monday (6) that Israel will have “overall responsibility for security” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the end of the war, Regev said: “We have to distinguish between security presence and political control.”
“When this is over and we have defeated Hamas, it is crucial that there is not a resurgent terrorist element, a resurgent Hamas. There’s no point in doing that and just going back to square one,” he explained.
“There will have to be an Israeli security presence, but that doesn’t mean that Israel is reoccupying Gaza, that doesn’t mean that Israel is there to govern the people of Gaza,” he said.
“On the contrary, we are interested in establishing new frameworks, where Gazans can govern themselves, where there can be international support for the reconstruction of Gaza. We hope that we can bring countries – also Arab countries – into the reconstruction of a demilitarized, post-Hamas Gaza,” he said.
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*Published by Douglas Porto
Source: CNN Brasil

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