Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out the possibility of the current Palestinian Authority playing a role in the Gaza Strip after the war between Israel and Hamas concludes. In response to a question about the potential for the Palestinian Authority to manage the territory post-war, Netanyahu stated, "There cannot be an authority led by someone who, over 30 days post-massacre (October 7), has not yet condemned it. There must be something else, but in any case, we must have security control."
Netanyahu continued, "We need complete security control with the capability to enter whenever we want to expel terrorists who may reappear." He added, "There will not be a civil authority that teaches its children to hate Israel, to kill Israelis, to eliminate the State of Israel."
Netanyahu emphasized that with the end of the war, "Gaza will be disarmed, and there will be no threat from Gaza to Israel. The massacre on October 7 has conclusively proved that anywhere not under Israeli security control will see a return of terrorism." He noted that "this has been realized in the West Bank," which is occupied by Israel, where the Israeli army has intensified its incursions into areas that are supposed to be exclusively governed by the Palestinian Authority since the beginning of the war.
