According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the IDF will have to control security indefinitely after Gaza is seized and Hamas has fallen.
“I think Israel for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it,” Netanyahu said on ABC News overnight. “When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine.”
From The Wall Street Journal:
President Biden has repeatedly said Israel has a right and duty to defend itself. But he has also cautioned Israel against occupying Gaza, saying it would be a “big mistake.”
Netanyahu’s comments leave many important questions unanswered, including whether the Israeli military plans to control the whole strip or just a portion of it. Northern Gaza, the heart of Hamas’s activities, has been the focus of Israel’s war. Israeli forces have encircled Gaza City, waging an air-bombing campaign and ground operations targeting the militants and their operational infrastructure, including underground tunnels.
The war has also flattened residential buildings, killing thousands of Palestinian civilians and forcing two-thirds of the enclave’s 2.2 million people to flee their homes. Israel has blocked most supplies of food, water and medicine from reaching the strip, rejecting U.S. calls for a “humanitarian pause” to relieve the suffering of civilians. No fuel, needed for electricity to run basic services including hospitals, has been allowed through since the war began.
For Israel, there are few good options about what to do with Gaza in the long term, say current and former Israeli officials. In the past, Israel didn’t push for decisive control of Gaza. For 16 years, Israel essentially treated Hamas as a necessary evil on its southern border that it couldn’t get rid of for fear something worse could take its place. The Oct. 7 attacks, which left 1,400 people dead, changed that paradigm.
Full report over at The Wall Street Journal:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would seek to assume overall responsibility for security in Gaza, raising questions about its exit strategy https://t.co/uNNBrRfPfb
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 7, 2023
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