Israel aims to crush Hamas but vague on Gaza's post-war future
Israel is determined to crush Hamas but has said little about what would replace its rule in Gaza after the war.No Arab or Muslim state has so far proposed an intervention.
In the wake of the 7 October attacks, when militants from the Palestinian Islamist movement began a deadly cross-border assault that killed 1 400 people, Israel has laid out just one objective:"Destroying Hamas". The territory, which has been languishing under an Israeli and Egyptian blockade since Hamas took control in 2007, has since 7 October suffered a spiralling humanitarian crisis, largely deprived of water, food and other basic supplies and more than a million people displaced.
According to Eitan Shamir, a former Israeli government security specialist and now director of Jerusalem's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Washington will have a decisive say in Gaza's future."The favourite option of the Americans and Israelis would be an international structure with Palestinian Authority, with Saudi funding, for example," Shamir told AFP, saying it could include US and European administrative help.
One option supported by Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid is for Mahmud Abbas' Palestinian Authority to take control.
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