Israel-Hamas, Netanyahu’s plan (in two phases) for the post-war period

NETANYAHU’S ANNOUNCEMENT /1

• While fighting in Gaza City, now surrounded by the Israeli army, Benjamin Netanyahu announced on ABC News that his country will have “overall responsibility for safety“of the Gaza Strip”for an indefinite period“once the war with Hamas is over

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NETANYAHU’S ANNOUNCEMENT /2

• “We’ve seen what happens when we don’t have that. When we don’t have that safety responsibility, let’s see the explosion of Hamas terror on a scale we could not imagine“Netanyahu said in the interview

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BUT THE UNITED STATES…

• The imagined future by Netanyahu for the Gaza Strip is in contrast with that desired by the United States, Israel’s main ally. President Joe Biden’s administration is instead pushing for that plot of land returns under the control of the Palestinian Authoritywithin a peace agreement that also includes the West Bank

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A TWO-PHASE PLAN

• But what did Netanyahu mean with that announcement and what message did he want to give to the Americans? As reported by Corriere della Seraaccording to international analysts, the Israeli prime minister would have a plan in mind floor for the future of the Strip divided into two phases: in the first the establishment of a “buffer zone“, in the second the establishment of a model similar to area B in the West Bank

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THE FIRST PHASE

• Let’s start from the first phase, which sees the establishment of a “buffer zone”. This term refers to the creation of one a kilometer-wide space on the border between Israel and the Gaza Stripwith the aim of protecting Israeli population centers from possible incursions by Hamas terrorists

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE FIRST PHASE

• What does the “buffer zone” involve? Any Palestinian should enter that area would automatically be considered an enemy, with all the consequences of the case. Netanyahu essentially wants to avoid what happened on October 7, when Hamas terrorists invaded Israeli territory carrying out massacres in the kibbutzim near the border e at the rave party in the desert (in the picture)

THE SECOND PHASE

• In the second phase, after the establishment of a “buffer zone”, the creation of a buffer zone is envisaged zone B model in the West Bankthat under mixed Israeli-Palestinian control as defined by the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s

THE OSLO AGREEMENTS

• The Oslo Accords provided for the patchy division of the West Bank: zone A under Palestinian control, zone B under joint Israeli-Palestinian control e zone C under Israeli control. However, in the following years, they multiplied suicide attacks against the Jewish population and Palestinian cities repeatedly invaded by Israeli tanks

WHAT DOES ZONE B INVOLVE?

• But what does zone B provide from a legal point of view? There civil management is Palestinianbad Israel Defense Forces (Idf) they can intervene at any time with raids, arrests and checks (in photo, Israeli soldiers in Yabad, near Jenin)

THE OTHER FLOOR

• However, as the Corriere della Serathere are extremist Israeli ministers who instead want a full control of Gaza. The war with Hamas could therefore represent an opportunity for completely annex the Strip and the West Bank

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