despite international pressure, Benjamin Netanyahu maintains vagueness on the post-war plan between Israel and Hamas

Guest of LCI, Thursday evening, the Israeli Prime Minister was evasive on the long-term objectives of the operation carried out in the Palestinian enclave and in particular on the possibility that the Israeli army could remain in Gaza once the operations were completed. .

Of the “anti-Semitic slander“. In an interview with the LCI channel, conducted remotely, Thursday May 30, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described “anti-Semitic slander“the fact that Israel is accused of targeting civilians or starving them in the Gaza Strip.

According to the Israeli Prime Minister, “the number of civilian losses relative to combatant losses“Palestinians were”the lowest rate seen in an urban war“Israel estimates that around half of the people killed since the start of the war in Gaza are Hamas or Islamic Jihad militants.

For its part, the Israeli army is still shelling the center and south of the Gaza Strip, after announcing this week that it controls a strategic buffer zone between the Palestinian territory and Egypt at the heart of its operation against Hamas. In the early hours of Friday, Palestinian witnesses reported Israeli strikes near Rafah, the new epicenter of the war between Israel and Hamas, which was hit by intense artillery fire on Thursday, but also in the Nusseirat sector, in the center of the enclave. And always this question: what plan for the post-war in Gaza?

During this interview, denounced by some 2,500 people gathered in front of the TF1 headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, the Israeli Prime Minister thus rejected the prospects of recognition of a Palestinian state which are flourishing throughout the world, and which France considers today that it is no longer a “a taboo subject”. Before remaining vague on the long-term objectives of the operation carried out in the Palestinian enclave.

Benjamin Netanyahu thus outlined not a plan, but measures that could be taken to ensure security in Gaza. Unsurprisingly, he believes that it is Israel that should take this responsibility. “I think we will have to have security responsibilities because we will have to prevent the resurgence of Hamas or other terrorist groups. I would like there to be an international force that would do this, but I don’t see one emerging. And until that happens, Israel will be responsible for security“, he first announced.

Before specifying that military occupation or not, in the Prime Minister’s post-war vision, Israel must be able to freely operate militarily in the Palestinian enclave: “I don’t know if we will have to occupy Gaza, but we will have to be able to enter there at any time to stop the terrorists.”estimated Benjamin Netanyahu.