EARLIER this week, the United States urged Israel to adopt a two-state solution by the establishment of a Palestinian State in Davos, Switzerland.
However, in the latest statement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he is opposed to such an idea once the war comes to an end and said that they will not stop until complete victory.
According to Netanyahu, Israel must have security control over all land west of the River Jordan which would include the territory of any future Palestinian state.
“This is a necessary condition, and it conflicts with the idea of [a Palestinian] sovereignty. What to do? I tell this truth to our American friends, and I also stopped the attempt to impose a reality on us that would harm Israel’s security,” Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel stated.
Commenting on Netanyahu’s statement, US National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby reiterated that the US has been “exceedingly clear” about what it wants Gaza to look like after the war, and that is governance in Gaza that is a representative to the aspirations of Palestinian people, and that there is no reoccupation of Gaza.
“But there’s going to be a post-conflict Gaza. And we have been exceedingly clear about what we want to see that look like. We want governance in Gaza that’s representative of the aspirations of the Palestinian people … that there’s no reoccupation of Gaza,” John Kirby, U.S. NSC Spokesman said.
The health ministry of Hamas said that nearly 25,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 85% of the enclave’s residents have been displaced since Israel retaliated following the October 7 attack of Hamas.
