Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip will be funded by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates” after the end of the Israeli aggression on the Strip and the war against Hamas, according to what Israeli media reported.

The Times of Israel newspaper explained in its report, Monday, December 11, 2023, that Netanyahu’s allegations came during his participation in a session of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Israeli Knesset, which touched on developments in the ongoing brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The newspaper said that the basis on which Netanyahu's claim is based was not immediately clear, and no oil-rich Gulf country has given any public indication that it is ready to undertake such a mission, to rebuild what was destroyed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip.

Arab and American officials also repeatedly told the newspaper over the past two months that Arab support for the reconstruction of Gaza is not a given, and that at best it will serve as an alternative until the Palestinian Authority is ready to take responsibility and advance the two-state solution.

Netanyahu also indicated that his government's plan for the day after the war includes "establishing a buffer zone between the Gaza Strip and the Gaza Strip and controlling the Philadelphia (Salah al-Din) axis between the Strip and Egypt."

Netanyahu also attacked the Palestinian Authority, vowing not to allow it to take over the administration of the Gaza Strip after the end of the war. He said that the Oslo Accords "were the biggest mistake committed by Israel," noting that "both sides (Hamas and the Authority) of Palestinian society basically want to eliminate Israel."

Meanwhile, the head of the Labor Party in the occupying state, Merav Michaeli, criticized Netanyahu's policies and his vision for what she described as "the next day," referring to the stage after the end of the aggression that resulted in the martyrdom of more than 18,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Addressing Netanyahu, Michaeli said: “I have returned to the campaign of no Palestinian authority and no Palestinian state. I tried it for a long time, and perhaps I believed in it, but it failed miserably. It never presented an alternative to the Palestinian state.”

Michaeli, who only last week announced her retirement from political life, added that “without a vision, the Gulf states will not achieve the goal of restoring and preserving Gaza.”

In response to the Labor Party leader's attack, Netanyahu said, "The idea is for the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to participate in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip the day after the war."

Source: Arabic Post