The Hebrew newspaper "Haaretz" revealed, this evening, Wednesday, that there are differences between the United States and Israel regarding the Palestinian Authority assuming power in the Gaza Strip, if the occupation army is able to eliminate the Hamas movement.

The newspaper said that while the administration of US President Joe Biden is trying to present the Palestinian Authority as the ultimate governing body for the Gaza Strip, members of the extreme right in the ruling coalition are working to spread an image of its weakness and inability to assume power.

According to the Israeli newspaper, this division comes due to increasing American concern about the current situation in the West Bank, which threatens the status and standing of the Palestinian Authority, in addition to American fear of the impact of escalating settler violence on the stability of the Middle East in general, and the region in particular.

Since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, launched by the Hamas movement on the “Gaza envelope” settlements, the occupation army decided to launch a military operation aimed at “destroying the military and governmental capabilities of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in a way that will deprive them for many years of the ability and desire to threaten the citizens of Israel.”

Later, Israeli officials indicated that the ground war aims to eliminate the Hamas movement, which is what Washington has requested clarification of since its intervention, and to draw up a plan for the stage after entering the Gaza Strip and achieving the goals.

A former Israeli diplomat told the same newspaper last week that the United States fears paying the price for the mistakes that Israel could commit in the war on Gaza, indicating that the level of confidence of the American administration in the type of decisions that the Israeli leadership can take is low.

According to the military analyst, the United States views the war on Gaza from a broad angle, pointing out that Washington’s agenda of priorities is much greater than Tel Aviv’s narrow interests.