Israel warned by US over its post-war plans for Gaza

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The White House maintained on Tuesday that it doesn’t believe Israeli forces should reoccupy Gaza following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comments that the country will have the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends.

“The president still believes that a reoccupation of Gaza by Israeli forces is not good. It’s not good for Israel; not good for the Israeli people,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on CNN, this morning.

“One of the conversations that Secretary (Antony) Blinken has been having in the region is what does post-conflict Gaza look like? What does governance look like in Gaza? Because whatever it is it can’t be what it was on October 6. It can’t be Hamas,” he added.

The latest warning from the White House comes after Netanyahu told ABC News on Monday that Gaza should be governed by “those who don’t want to continue the way of Hamas” before adding, “I think Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it.”

It was one of the first hints Netanyahu has given about his vision for a post-war Gaza and suggests a divergent view than that of the US, including President Joe Biden’s own statements about what the future of the strip would look like.

There have been other sharp gaps between the US and Israel emerging in recent weeks as the war continues. Blinken last week pushed the Israelis for a “humanitarian pause” to allow hostages and civilians to leave Gaza and for aid for Palestinians to enter, but was rebuked by Netanyahu.

And despite Blinken’s forceful public missive that “civilians should not suffer the consequences for (Hamas’) inhumanity and its brutality,” Israeli forces continued to strike civilian sites in the wake of the top US diplomat’s visit. The forces claimed that the sites were being used by Hamas.

Biden told reporters in Washington that he hasn’t had a chance to speak with Netanyahu on Tuesday – but he did ask the Israeli prime minister to consider a humanitarian pause when the two leaders spoke on Monday.

“I didn’t get a chance to talk to him today. I did ask him for a pause in the past –- yesterday. I’m still waiting to hear from other people,” Biden told reporters.

Israeli government officials have not yet elaborated on how Gaza would be governed should they succeed in eliminating Hamas.

Source: CNN

以色列因其戰後計劃而受到美國警告

白宮週二堅稱，以色列總理本傑明·內塔尼亞胡表示，以色列將在戰爭結束後“無限期”地承擔加沙的“全面安全責任”，之後白宮堅稱以色列軍隊不應該重新佔領加沙。

「總統仍然認為以色列軍隊重新佔領加薩並不好。 這對以色列不利； 對以色列人民不利，」國家安全委員會發言人約翰柯比今天上午在美國有線電視新聞網 (CNN) 上表示。

「國務卿（安東尼）布林肯在該地區進行的對話之一是衝突後的加薩是什麼樣子？ 加薩的治理是什麼樣的？ 因為無論它是什麼，它都不可能是 10 月 6 日的樣子。它不可能是哈馬斯，」他補充道。

在白宮發出最新警告之前，內塔尼亞胡週一告訴美國廣播公司新聞，加薩應該由「那些不想繼續走哈馬斯道路的人」統治，然後補充道，「我認為以色列將無限期地擁有全面的安全責任，因為我們已經看到瞭如果我們沒有它會發生什麼。”

這是內塔尼亞胡首次暗示他對戰後加薩的願景，並提出了與美國不同的觀點，包括總統拜登自己關於加薩地帶未來的言論。

最近幾週，隨著戰爭的繼續，美國和以色列之間還出現了其他嚴重分歧。 布林肯上週敦促以色列“暫停人道主義行動”，允許人質和平民離開加沙，並為巴勒斯坦人進入加沙提供援助，但遭到內塔尼亞胡的斥責。

儘管布林肯強烈公開表示“平民不應承受（哈馬斯）不人道及其殘暴行為的後果”，但在美國高級外交官訪問後，以色列軍隊繼續襲擊平民場所。 部隊聲稱這些地點正在被哈馬斯使用。

拜登在華盛頓告訴記者，他週二沒有機會與內塔尼亞胡交談，但他確實要求以色列總理在兩國領導人周一講話時考慮暫停人道主義援助。

「我今天沒有機會和他說話。 昨天我確實要求他暫停一下。 我仍在等待其他人的消息，」拜登告訴記者。

以色列政府官員尚未詳細說明如果成功消滅哈馬斯，加薩將如何治理。