The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, acknowledged this Tuesday that he has differences with his main ally, the United States, over what will happen in the Gaza Strip once the war with the Islamist group Hamas is over. However, he has insisted on his position that he will not leave it in the hands of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), as proposed by the US: “Gaza will be neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan”.

“Yes, there is disagreement about the day after Hamas,” Netanyahu said, according to a statement released by his office. The United States, Israel’s main partner, has proposed that the PA, which governs small parts of the occupied West Bank, take control in the Gaza Strip after the war, but Netanyahu has vehemently rejected this proposal on several occasions. “After the great sacrifice of our civilians and our soldiers, I will not allow those who educate for terrorism to enter Gaza, support terrorism and finance terrorism,” Netanyahu said.

The PNA, headed by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, lost control of Gaza in 2007 – when Hamas took power by force – and maintains cooperation agreements with Israel in accordance with the Oslo Accords (1993-1995). “I will not allow Israel to repeat the mistake of Oslo,” Netanyahu stressed this Tuesday, whose right-wing and far-right government has promoted occupation and colonization policies in the occupied West Bank.

The ANP, willing

Abbas recently said be willing to assume power in the Strip, But the ANP requests that a peace process be initiated with Israel that contemplates the creation of a Palestinian State with its capital in East Jerusalem, and the West Bank and Gaza as component territories, something very far from the current reality. “Gaza will be neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan“said Netanyahu, referring to the Islamist group Hamas and the party Fatahheaded by Abbas.

The war broke out on October 7 after a Hamas attack against Israeli territory that included the launching of thousands of rockets and the infiltration of some 3,000 militiamen who massacred some 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250 in Israeli towns near the Strip. . Since then, Israel has attacked the Palestinian enclave with force by air, land and sea, where There are already more than 18,200 dead, some 50,000 injured and 1.8 million displaced, in the midst of a serious humanitarian crisis.

Faced with increasing international pressure to stop the fighting, the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution last week which called for a ceasefire, the release of all hostages and the deployment of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

“After an intense dialogue with President (of the United States, Joe) Biden and his team, we receive full support for the ground incursion (in Gaza) and the blocking of international pressure to stop the war,” Netanyahu said this Tuesday. “I greatly appreciate the American support,” he stressed, after the United States recently approved the urgent shipment of some 14,000 artillery shells to Israel.