The Israeli report stated, on Sunday, that officials in the administration of US President Joe Biden are in contact with the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, to discuss the possibility of deploying members of the Authority’s security services in the Gaza Strip, after the end of the Israeli war on the besieged Strip, within the framework of a series of “reforms.” The broad plan that urges the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to conduct it.

This came according to what the Walla website reported, citing American officials (whom it did not name). The report considered that this step confirms the Biden administration’s determination to establish and strengthen a “renewed Palestinian authority” so that it can play a role in managing the Gaza Strip in the coming months, which was expressed by the US President in public statements, by US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken.

The report pointed out that US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, during his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah last Friday, focused on “the ways in which the Palestinian Authority can participate in managing Gaza after the Israeli war” on the Strip. .

Regarding the meeting between Sullivan and Abbas, White House spokesman John Kirby said that they discussed “what Gaza will look like after the war, how it will be managed, and ways to develop and renew the Palestinian Authority so that it can bear responsibility for the future of the Palestinian people.”

Kirby indicated that Sullivan discussed with Abbas the reforms that must be implemented so that the Palestinian Authority “is more reliable, more representative of the segments of the Palestinian people, and more able to bear responsibility,” noting that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had stressed that he “will not allow the Authority to administration of the Gaza Strip, and that Israel will control security after the war.”

According to the Walla report, the Biden administration wants the Palestinian President to lead “wide-ranging reforms in the Palestinian Authority, including the infusion of new blood into leadership positions,” and urged the introduction of young figures into decision-making circles who “have administrative skills and enjoy the support of masses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the confidence of the international community.”

The report added, “One of the issues that the Biden administration has discussed with senior Palestinian Authority officials in recent weeks is the form in which the Palestinian Authority can integrate through its security force in Gaza, the day after the war, through which Tel Aviv and Washington aim to “eliminate Hamas movement, ending its ability to rule the Gaza Strip and returning the hostages.”

The American officials proposed to the Palestinian President “to reactivate the security elements who served in the security services of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza before Hamas took control of the Strip in 2007 following the movement’s victory in the legislative elections in early 2006,” in preparation for returning these elements to service.

The website quoted an American official as saying: “There are a number of residents of the Gaza Strip who were previously part of the Palestinian security services and it may be possible to use them as the nucleus of a future Palestinian security force in the months that follow the Israeli military operation, but this is only one from many ideas.

The report quoted a source familiar with the details of the talks between Washington and Ramallah, saying, “The Palestinian Authority has begun in recent days to contact some of these people, especially those who are of an appropriate age for security service, with the aim of verifying whether they are interested in returning to serve in the Palestinian security forces.”

The report pointed out that the US administration believes that the security services of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, which receive training and guidance from Washington, “are carrying out effective activities in combating terrorism and preventing many operations against Israel, and Washington intends to copy this model of authority to apply it in the Gaza Strip after the war".

The report indicated that “the Israeli army and the General Security Service (Shin Bet) also believe that the Palestinian security forces contributed to thwarting operations against Israeli targets and also contributed to stabilizing the security situation in the West Bank, but at the same time they lost partial or complete control over cities such as Jenin or Nablus.