Israeli and Arab officials have revealed that Israeli security officials are quietly developing a plan to distribute aid in the Gaza Strip, which could eventually lead to a Palestinian-led governing authority. The plan has sparked a fierce backlash from Hamas and created divisions within Israel’s war cabinet.
According to officials, a top Israeli defense official has held talks with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan to build regional support for the effort. The plan involves enlisting Palestinian leaders and businessmen with no ties to Hamas to distribute aid, which would enter Gaza by land and sea after Israeli inspection. The aid would be stored in large warehouses in central Gaza and distributed by Palestinians.
Once the war is over, the aid officials would assume authority to govern, backed by security forces funded by wealthy Arab governments. The effort aims to fill the power vacuum left by Israel’s invasion of Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
However, the plan faces obstacles and lacks the support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes working with Fatah, a rival party to Hamas seen as supporting terrorism.
Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, head of the Israeli security arm overseeing civilian affairs in occupied territories, sees the aid effort as crucial to Israel’s plan to evacuate Rafah, Hamas’ last stronghold. The aid network would feed 750,000 to a million people in displacement camps planned for absorbing Rafah’s population.
Hamas has responded with threats, labeling anyone working with Israelis as traitors and threatening them with death. Several Palestinian families once open to the idea have withdrawn in recent days.
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And it’s with France’s blessings no doubt and England and Denmark and Sweden and the list goes on. All their bosom-buddies. Biden is also in agreement but too afraid to actually say it.
once again, you fail colossal in choosing an appropriate headline. Consider “Top Israeli Idiots Still trying to hold peace talks.”
The Arabs in Gaza are more afraid of Hamas than of us. We are humanitarian, they are wild dangerous animals who could kill their grandmother.
This is loosely the Mordechai Kedar plan. Are these families strong enough and willing to confront and overcome Hamas? This makes the IDF into an enforcement branch of this solution. That will complicate the whole endeavor. Any other ideas beside clearing them all out, or forfeiting the gains of the war? Would Egypt be willing to add Gaza as a state within their government, like we added Hawaii? It seems the Muslim Brotherhood is too big a risk for them inside Egypt or the upper Sinai. What about the area between Ras Abu Rodeis to Ras Mohamed or Sharm El-Sheikh? That would place them into the southern most Sinai, barricaded by Mountains, but with coastal access and a land mass roughly equivalent to Gaza.