Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented his first official “day after” plan for the Gaza Strip once the war with Hamas ends, saying Israel will keep security control over Palestinian areas and make reconstruction dependent on demilitarization.
The plan, which brings together a range of well-established Israeli positions, underlines Netanyahu’s resistance to the creation of a Palestinian state, which he sees as a security threat, without explicitly ruling one out at some future stage.
It was swiftly dismissed by Palestinian officials as doomed to failure.
The document proposes Israel would maintain security control over all land west of Jordan, including the occupied West
