While the defense establishment and the US administration are pressing for decisions about the "day after" in the Gaza Strip, a group of Likud MKs wants to formulate a factional plan in the hope that it will be adopted by the prime minister and cabinet ministers.
The person leading the move is Minister Amichai Shikli, who joined MK Moshe Saada. The two recently met with dozens of officials, such as former heads of the defense establishment, retired heads of the National Security Council and experts in the field of security and international law. They were joined in leading the program by MKs Dan Illouz and Boaz Bismuth, and the plan was presented to other MKs who expressed support for it.
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The Knesset members intend to bring the plan to a discussion in its details in the Likud faction, with the participation of the prime minister and the defense minister. The main points of the plan are: a thick security perimeter along the entire Gaza border, between 3 and 5 km, on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip; The Philadelphi route and the international border will remain Egyptian responsibility, above and below ground, but Israel will maintain a significant military presence north of Rafah. This is in addition to holding onto the Netzarim corridor, which will prevent access to the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City until another Israeli decision on the matter, and in any case – not before the settlement and rehabilitation of the communities near the Gaza Strip.
No central government
According to the plan, there will be no central government in the Gaza Strip. The city of Rafah will remain separated from the rest of the Gaza Strip, and Israel will prevent smuggling from it north by a military force that will also carry out operations in the city itself in accordance with security needs. In the central part of the Gaza Strip, the area of the central camps and Khan Yunis, there will be a different regime, with the IDF operating there as well if necessary.
One of the initiators of the proposed plan, Minister Amichai Shikli, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
One of the initiators of the proposed program, Moshe Saada on Channel 14, photo: from Channel Now 14
At this stage, the northern part of the Gaza Strip will remain mostly desolation and desolation. What was destroyed will not be rehabilitated, and residents of the area will not be allowed to return, at least as long as Hamas has not been completely dismantled, the residents of the envelope have not been rehabilitated and the abductees have not been returned. Possession of the area will be military, until another decision is made, which will probably also be derived from the nature of the government in office at the time and the nature of the American administration: there will be governments that evacuate, there will be governments that annex, or return some of the Jewish communities.
The proposal does not talk about population expulsion, the occupation of Rafah or controversial moves by the world. The Americans are indeed demanding the return of the residents of northern Gaza to their homes, but there is a consensus among the Israeli leadership that in any case this is not possible at the moment.
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