Israel won’t allow a return to pre-October 7 reality: Katz
After Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Defence Minister Israel Katz told a senior US official in recent days that Israel does not seek military or civil rule over Gaza, Katz this morning said in a statement:
- Once we defeat Hamas’s military power and ruling power in Gaza, Israel will control security in Gaza with full freedom to act.
- This will be just as in Judea and Samaria [the occupied West Bank].
- We will not allow any terrorist activity against Israeli communities and citizens from Gaza.
- We will not allow a return to the pre-October 7 reality.
He added in a post on X that Israel will not allow any armed group in Gaza to act against its communities and citizens. “We will not allow a return to the reality before October 7,” Israel Katz stressed.
You want to return to a reality that will continue this conflict indefinitely...
Israel setting terms for potential deal as it plans to treat Gaza as West Bank
There’s very little concern at this point in Israel about what the international community says because for almost 15 months now it has not done things that match their uproar about many Israeli actions and statements.
But what Defence Minister Israel Katz has now said is that Israel intends to treat Gaza the way it treats the West Bank. It can go in and out without reservation or hesitation, it can detain any Palestinian it wants, it can target and assassinate any Palestinian it wants, and it can operate freely.
It is using the same policy in southern Lebanon as well. There’s a ceasefire in place, but Israeli targeting in Lebanon has not stopped – and that’s because there’s nothing to stop it.
The Israeli statements are coming in light of all the discussions and leaks we’ve seen in the past few days about a possible ceasefire in Gaza. Katz is now clarifying what Israel will and will not do once an agreement is accomplished.
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