US President Joe Biden said on Saturday that a “renewed” Palestinian authority must ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after the war on Gaza.

He added, in an opinion article published by the Washington Post, “As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank must be reunited under a single governance structure, and ultimately under a renewed Palestinian authority, while we all work toward a two-state solution.”

He said: "There must be no forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, no re-occupation, no siege, and no reduction of territory."

Biden used the article to try to answer the question of what the United States wants for Gaza once the conflict ends.

“The international community must allocate resources to support the people of Gaza in the immediate aftermath of this crisis, including temporary security measures, and establish a reconstruction mechanism to meet Gaza’s long-term needs in a sustainable manner,” he wrote. “It is imperative that no terrorist threats again emanate from Gaza or West Bank".

He added: “If we can agree on these first steps, and take them together, we can begin to envision a different future. In the coming months, the United States will redouble its efforts to create a more peaceful, integrated, and prosperous Middle East.”

He pointed out that he discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York last October "a set of substantive commitments that would help Israel and the Palestinian territories better integrate into the greater Middle East." "This is also the idea behind the Creative Economic Corridor that will connect India to Europe via the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel, which I announced with my partners at the G20 summit in India in early September," he said.

Netanyahu said that Israel must maintain its “comprehensive military responsibility” for Gaza “for the foreseeable future.”

Biden also said that the United States is ready to issue a visa ban on “extremists” who attack civilians in the West Bank. Israeli settler violence against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank has escalated since the start of the war on Gaza.

Biden said: "I stressed to Israel's leaders the need to stop extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and hold perpetrators of violence accountable."

The West Bank, inhabited by three million Palestinians, has been witnessing a state of turmoil for more than 18 months, raising increasing international concern with the escalation of violence after October 7.

(Reuters, Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed)