Gallant (center): The army is paying the price for not making a decision on who will rule Gaza after the war (Anatolia)
Israeli Channel 13 quoted Defense Minister Yoav Galant as saying, during a government meeting discussing the agreement proposal presented by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), that Israel will not be able to overthrow the movement “if it does not work to create an alternative to it in the Gaza Strip.”
Gallant explained that the Israeli army is paying the price for what he called the failure to make a political decision regarding who will rule Gaza after the war, noting that the most likely option for the form of governance in Gaza after the war is to strengthen local elements, according to him.
For its part, Israeli Channel 12 quoted Gallant as saying that Israel's military rule of the Gaza Strip "will cost it the lives of its soldiers and drain military resources."
Sources had previously told Al Jazeera that the coordinator of the Israeli government’s activities in Gaza had personally contacted family notables in the Gaza Strip, but they rejected his offer, stressing that the tribes could not accept being an alternative to the government, and expressed their willingness to cooperate in bringing in and distributing aid, on the condition that Coordination with security services in the sector.
The Hamas movement also praised the position of the tribal notables in their refusal to “respond to the malicious plans of the Zionist occupation,” noting that this “proves the unity and cohesion of Palestinian society behind the option of resistance and national unity.”
Source: Al Jazeera + Israeli press