The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected this Sunday the 15-point plan for the Gaza Strip promoted by US President Donald Trump, and stated that his troops will not withdraw from the Palestinian enclave until the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has completely disarmed.
“Israel rejects the 15-point document. The Israel Defense Forces will not make any withdrawal until the disarmament of Hamas. And when I say ‘disarmament of Hamas,’ I mean both heavy and non-heavy weapons: all weapons,” he stated in a video posted on social networks.
The Israeli prime minister has stated that they are in dialogue with the American side after rejecting the agreement, which had been accepted by Hamas and other armed Palestinian militias. “They have ideas; some of them are acceptable to us and others are not and we know how to stand firm in the face of these things,” he argued.
“The existence of Israel and the security of all of Israel’s citizens are not subject to negotiation. We remain firm in these interests,” he said, adding that his forces will continue to thwart existing “threats” against Israel and its citizens.
Likewise, Netanyahu has reiterated that while he is prime minister there will be no Palestinian state. “Neither Gaza nor Judea and Samaria (West Bank). Neither ‘Fatahistan’ nor ‘Hamastan,'” he noted, alluding to the party of the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas.
This comes after the general director of the Gaza Peace Board, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, confirmed that the Government of Israel, through its security cabinet headed by Netanyahu, had given the ‘green light’ to the entry into Gaza of the International Stabilization Force, the peace mission organized by Trump himself.
