US pressures Netanyahu for post-war plan for Gaza
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Biden and other officials have opposed Netanyahu's goals, dissaproving of the full control of Gaza and the displacement of Palestinians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Al-Quds on June 25, 2023. (AP)
The White House is demanding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu define a vision for Gaza's future, as the Israeli aggression is scheduled to resume its offensive as soon as the current truce ends, a report by The Times revealed.
The temporary truce between the Israeli occupation and the Resistance in Gaza came into effect at 7 am on Friday, following an Israeli aggression that has persisted for 47 days, leaving thousands injured and killed.
The truce, which was supposed to last for four days, was extended by two days earlier today. The truce entails the liberation of a number of imprisoned Palestinian women and minors (under the age of 19) from Israeli occupation jails and the admission of relief aid and fuel in the besieged Gaza Strip, in exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
One senior official divulged that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) intend to undertake a war in Gaza for up to a year, going beyond any realistic end date for the full control of the strip.
According to David Ignatius in The Washington Post, after "Israel" paused its war on Gaza, the Israeli occupation forces are faced with a "controversial dilemma" of considering how exactly they will resume their bombardment of the strip in their alleged effort to "eradicate" Hamas.
These plans are likely to entail the construction of new security systems for the governance of Gaza in the future as Netanyahu said he told US President Joe Biden that he is open to extending the temporary truce with the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza but affirmed that once it's over, the Israeli ground invasion will resume in "full power" to "destroy Hamas" and release the remaining captives.
Biden and other officials have opposed Netanyahu's goals, disapproving of the full control of Gaza and the displacement of Palestinians.
In a recent article by The Washington Post, Biden expressed that “there must be no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, no reoccupation, no siege or blockade, and no reduction in territory."
In an Op-ed on The Washington Post, Biden expressed his belief that the Palestinian Authority should be the governing body for both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, despite the fact that the last elections were held in 2006, where Hamas won the majority, and since then, the occupation entity has prevented any such elections fearing a new win to fore Resistance parties.
While Biden wishes to see “Gaza and the West Bank reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority (PA)," an Israeli Likud MP, Danny Danon, expressed that negotiations with Palestinians would not occur if leader Mahmoud Abbas was in power.
"We are going to have to wait for a new leader to emerge, and then we can move forward."
'Israel' lost control, on the way to losing its war on Gaza: Report
The announcement of a temporary ceasefire, alongside the prisoners-captives exchange, while it comes as a relief for all sides after 50 days of the vicious Israeli aggression, the Israeli handling of the captives situation indicates that the entity is at risk of losing the war, a report published by The Sunday Times on Sunday said.
Shortly after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, "Israel" activated Article 40 of its Basic Law, officially entering a state of war with and facilitating the mobilization of its reserve forces. "Israel's" armed strength, boasting a force of 550,000, as per the released data, starkly overshadows al-Qassam's estimated 25,000.
However, despite the indisputable military superiority, "Israel" has lost control of events, the report said, adding that the captives held by the Resistance gave Hamas the upper hand, which, as per the newspaper, the group is skilled at using.
With growing pressure, both from the entity's internal front and foreign powers, on top of which is the US, the Resistance in Gaza knew that the Israeli war cabinet would be forced into this truce and exchange deal and, thus, made its best efforts to enhance its negotiating position for maximum political gain.
