Many ideas, but no agreement over what postwar Gaza should look like

Israel’s Visions for the Day After: How the State Department Will Don’t Write a Blank Check for Gaza’s Displacement

TEL AVIV, Israel — Competing visions for what postwar governance in Gaza could look like have emerged from Israeli officials this week, renewing debate both inside and outside Israel over what many have come to call plans for “the day after.”

McGovern had praised the State Department in a social media post saying “It must be clear that America will not write a blank check for mass displacement.”

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“You can’t divert foreign aid to build tunnels, right?” It doesn’t work. You’ve got to have someone taking over the Palestinian file that has money and will,” Graham said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in Israel this week, urged the revival of prospects of a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal that could see the Saudis involved in Gaza, he said.

Oil-rich Arab countries are expected to give funds for reconstruction. Gallant proposed a multinational task force to oversee the reconstruction, led by the U.S. in partnership with European and regional allies.

A key issue is the reconstruction of Gaza. No matter who helms the effort, rebuilding the territory will be a monumental task. As many as half of all buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israel’s bombardment, according to an analysis of satellite imagery by researchers at Oregon State University and the City University of New York.

Miller said that the rhetoric was “insulting and irresponsible”. “We have been told repeatedly and consistently by the Government of Israel, including by the Prime Minister, that such statements do not reflect the policy of the Israeli government. They should stop immediately.

Josep Borrell is the top foreign policy official in the European Union. He wrote in a statement on the social media platform X that forced displacements are not allowed.

The Palestinians, the Israelis, and the Palestinians: When Israel and Israel can not withdraw from any territory, nor will Israel be in the Gaza Strip

Israeli forces “cannot withdraw from any territory — we are in the Gaza Strip,” Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, told reporters Monday. I believe Jewish settlement is an important thing, and I do not rule it out.

The international outcry over comments made by two far-right Israeli ministers was the catalyst for the new plan by Gallant.

“If you cannot imagine Palestinian community or society or state without Hamas, then you need to give an alternative for the Palestinian people,” said Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, in an interview in December with the British think tank Chatham House. “And certainly, choosing on behalf of the Palestinians who will lead them has not worked in the past and will not work now.”

Fadi Quran told NPR in December that ” nobody will be accepted by Palestinian society unless Palestinians feel that that person is there to represent their will and they chose them.”

In a poll released in December by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, about 40% of Gaza residents preferred a postwar government that involved the Palestinian Authority, slightly more than the percentage who preferred one led by Hamas. Neither option got a majority.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had long criticized the Palestinian Authority’s policy to pay the families of prisoners held by Israel, voiced his opposition to the Biden plan.

The Biden administration had previously suggested that the Palestinian Authority, which currently governs the West Bank, be installed in Gaza. It is found that the Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, are unpopular among Palestinians.

Gallant did not offer specifics about what a Palestinian-led government would look like, beyond that it be led by “local non-hostile actors,” or how it could maintain its authority.

The militant group Hamas should not be given a chance to rule the Gaza Strip in the future, as a result of its attack on Israel, according to most proposals from Israel and the US.