Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant has firmly stated to U.S. officials that the Israeli military will not permit the rebuilding of illegal outposts or settlements within the Gaza Strip, Axios reports citing four U.S. and Israeli officials.
This report comes as the Biden administration is concerned regarding Israel’s plans to establish a one-kilometer buffer zone inside Gaza. This development has raised fears that it could lead to the reconstruction of settlements dismantled during the 2005 Israeli pullout from the enclave.
The urgency of the situation has been amplified in recent weeks, due to increasing pressure from the Israeli settler lobby and members of the governing coalition advocating for the reoccupation of Gaza and the reconstruction of these settlements.
Axios reveals that in a meeting last week with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew and U.S. envoy for humanitarian affairs David Satterfield, Gallant discussed the situation in Gaza. According to Axios’s sources, Lew and Satterfield inquired if the planned buffer zone was intended for settlement purposes. They reiterated Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s stance opposing any territorial changes in Gaza and harm to civilian infrastructure.
Gallant reportedly assured that the buffer zone is solely for security purposes and temporary, ruling out the possibility of rebuilding settlements in Gaza. Oded Basyuk, head of the IDF operations branch, who was present at the meeting, emphasized that the IDF would not allow Israeli civilians into the buffer zone, aligning with the security objectives.
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Gallant is and remains a nasty freie guy. He is for sure a lot better than the self hating left wingers but still he is not a shomer Torah and we should not look at him like a tzadik. BTW he always looks so angry…
Many secular Israelis are sick in the head. Why should the world be pro-Jew when the Israeli gov is racist against Jews and don’t let them live where they want? Millions of Arabs live in Israel, work in Israel, attend Israeli colleges, etc. etc. while in Gaza and the West Bank there is not even one Jew! All with the blessing and cooperation of the Israeli government!
Who is Gallant? He is a subject of the people, not the other way around. The people can vote these leaders out tomorrow and do what they believe is best for Israel. It goes without saying that 10/7 occurred under Gallant’s watch, to begin with. It is very arrogant of him to make such an assertive declaration after such an abysmal failure to perform his one and only job, which is to protect Israeli lives. He should be ashamed of himself.
the Israeli military will not permit the rebuilding of illegal outposts or settlements within the Gaza Strip
There was nothing illegal about the settlements that used to exist there. They were all fully legal. Why does YWN parrot the antisemitic line that there is some kind of law against Jews choosing to live in their own native land?
We will decide defense minister. Not you. Hashem decided already. Shut your face you lover of Muslims
a leftist general – a colleague of all the generals that allowed the hamas to attack.