Yesterday evening, Monday, the Israeli Channel 12 revealed a document that it said the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs had worked on discreetly over the past weeks, regarding the future of Gaza or the so-called “day after” the war on the Gaza Strip, While the office of the occupation Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denied the validity of what was stated therein.

The channel explained that after Netanyahu's statements regarding the Palestinian Authority not ruling Gaza the day after the war, a secret team in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs drafted a paper regarding that.

According to the document submitted to the Israeli National Security Council, “Israel is working towards a future in which the Palestinians can govern themselves without the possibility of being threatened.”

The channel pointed out that the crew worked discreetly during recent weeks with the aim of arriving at a professional opinion that would be presented to decision makers and include various aspects.

This came at the request of Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, whose basic instructions stipulated that the vision should not include the Palestinian Authority in its current composition, but that the vision should not be far from what the United States requires at the same time.

Channel 12 reported that the Ministerial Council for Political and Security Affairs (the Cabinet) did not hold serious discussions about the details formulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but this moment is approaching, and this paper will form a basis from which to start.

"Security" aspects

The document allocates some aspects to the arrangements for security measures, as the Israeli vision, according to the document, includes complete freedom for the Israeli occupation army to operate on the ground, as well as disarming all weapons from the Palestinians and preventing the resistance from strengthening, in addition to establishing a buffer zone, and working on a mechanism to prevent smuggling operations and impose control on the Philadelphia Axis and the Rafah Crossing (a readiness to examine the presence of international bodies with enforcement powers in this context), and the construction of a safe space at sea, in addition to more in-depth details for the long term, including a radical change in education programs and the role of UNRWA in the Gaza Strip.

At the civil and authoritarian levels

On the other hand, the Israeli vision included several aspects related to the civil and service level, most of which focused on an international mechanism for providing humanitarian services and managing daily life in a way that brings together major countries and international bodies operating in the Gaza Strip at the present time, accompanied by local parties that are not supportive of Hamas.

Although the document refers to Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip, its provisions practically confirm the occupation’s control over everything in the Gaza Strip and the continuation of the siege and the imposition of censorship on it, and on everything that enters or takes place in the Gaza Strip, in addition to freedom of military action and other aspects and occupation part of land and sea areas with the aim of establishing buffer zones.

Netanyahu denies

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the news and what the document contained about the future of Gaza, saying in a statement that “the information is incorrect.”

The statement said: “The Prime Minister is the one who leads the policy that confirms that after the elimination of Hamas, Gaza will not be ruled by any entity that breeds terrorism or supports terrorism and pays the families of terrorists. All other information is baseless.”

Source: Sama News