On Friday, Israel resumed its operations in the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant presented a post-war plan for the first time. The plan was rejected by the tribal regime in Gaza.
On Thursday evening, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant presented his “post-war” plan for the Gaza Strip from 2007 by “Hamas”. According to this plan, there is no “Hamas” and no “Israeli civilians”. Administration in Palestine after the end of the war”.
Talks about the “day after” the Gaza Strip and its civil and military administration and questions about the shape of Gaza since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas on October 7. Strip management, especially its security aspect, remains without clear answers.
A bold plan
Before presenting the plan to the military cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gallant outlined the plan's broad outlines to reporters.
The program includes several items:
* Implementation of this “Next Day Plan” will begin only after the residents of the northern Gaza Strip return to their areas, and it will not be allowed before the return of all Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The fighting broke out on October 7 when four former prisoners (Hisham al-Sayed, Ibra Mengistu and the bodies of soldiers Oren and Shaul), residents of Jewish towns in the Gaza Strip, returned to their towns from which they were expelled.
* Israel will implement a “Joint Operation with Egypt” along with the US, with the aim of “effectively isolating the border between Gaza and Egypt” to prevent arms and weapons being smuggled into the Palestinian territories from the Sinai.
* Israel isolates the border areas between itself and the Gaza Strip using technical and material means, and Israel is directly involved in the entry of goods into the Gaza Strip under joint Israeli-Egyptian control. Enter the Gaza Strip through Egypt.
Gallant's plan is to “continue fighting inside the Gaza Strip until the war goals are achieved, such as the return of hostages, the removal of Hamas' military and governmental capabilities, and the removal of the military threat from the Gaza Strip.”
“The plan states that Hamas will not rule Gaza, Israel will not rule Gaza as a civilian, and that responsibility for civilian life in the area will be handed over to Palestinian parties that are not hostile to Israel and cannot act against it. “
The Israeli military has not completely withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, but has assumed responsibility for security control (freedom of security operation) for as long as necessary to guarantee Israel's security and for several years.”
Tribal rule
Tribal leaders in the Gaza Strip have rejected Israeli plans to take over the rule of clan and clan leaders after the war ends, with the aim of ousting Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Akef al-Masri, Commissioner General of the Supreme Authority of the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip, said that the tribes are warning against unacceptable and dubious statements as the occupation government seeks to hide its defeat in Gaza and create confusion and strife. Palestinian community.
Al-Masri said Palestinian tribes are part of the Palestinian national fabric and represent a popular repository for Palestinian resistance that has buried its nose in occupation in the sands of Gaza. National Rights, which salutes the legendary determination of the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance, and calls for a unified national decision to hasten the end of partition, elevating all Palestinian virtues to the level and magnificence of sacrifices. A unified national leadership and a unified national government to strengthen the resolve of the people and prevent opportunities for all aggressive schemes.
Al-Masri called on all Palestinian, Arab and international parties to stop the genocidal war, ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid and medical and relief supplies, rebuild Palestinian institutions and guarantee shelter for civilians until the holding of general elections. Ensure the continuation of the Palestinian national struggle until self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
In a statement on Friday, the Palestinian President affirmed the clear and firm Palestinian position, which emphasized that the priority now is to stop the occupation against the Palestinian people in all their places. He said: “In response to the plans circulated in Israel regarding the Gaza Strip, the so-called post-war day, the Palestinian presidency reaffirms the lack of international legitimacy, the Arab peace initiative and the political horizon. Ending the occupation, without the Palestinian Liberation Organization and an independent Palestinian state. ” Its capital is Jerusalem, with all its holiness, and any plan to go beyond it is absolutely rejected.
Notably, Minister Gallant adopted a plan inspired by the “Emirates Plan” for the future of the Gaza Strip. The “Emirates Project” was started about ten years ago by a member of the “Begin-Sadat Institute for Studies” at Bar-Ilan University, a right-wing professor, Mordezai Kedar, in which he claims to be the only political. The solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the establishment of eight Palestinian emirates in the West Bank, with the exception of “an emirate that arose 10 years ago in Gaza and is ruled by Hamas,” and is linked to the rule of clans and families. At the time, Kedar insisted that his plan was based on the successful model of the United Arab Emirates. According to it, the Emirate of Hebron is ruled by the major clans, Jericho is ruled by the Ereqat family, Ramallah is ruled by the Barghouti and Al-Tawil families, Nablus is ruled by the Shaka and Al-Masri families, and so on.
However, the Kedar plan speaks of the Gaza Strip as a single emirate in addition to the emirates of the West Bank, while the Galand plan refers to the establishment of a “state of the Gazan emirates” based on which local tribes would assume governance. Dividing it into 8-9 governorates, each ruled by a clan and subject to civil government. One is based on the existing administrative apparatus in Gaza, and operates under the joint monitoring and supervision of several countries: the United States, European allies and moderate Arab states, notably Egypt, with the Emirates and Saudi Arabia as the head of the monitoring group. It is responsible for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. It will be linked to a “US-led multinational task force in partnership with countries leading the Civil Government Council” and will work to restructure the economy and impose the rule of law and order. and urban regulations. According to the plan, Israel requires that none of the local Palestinian authorities be affiliated with the Hamas movement.
According to the plan, “the multinational force will be the main address for international parties participating in the reconstruction of Gaza.” As for clans, their powers are initially limited, but are gradually expanded and strengthened with resources and tools according to their performance.
Israel rejected the plan
The plan has met fierce opposition from the Israeli right, which insists on deporting Gazans. Even the item talking about clans and emirates met with scorn from the right and left camps. Minister Benny Gantz asked: Do we know a Palestinian who has accepted this plan? Writer Nahum Barnia said in “Yediod Ahronoth” that “according to the proposal of officials in the security apparatus, the people who manage Gaza for us are the mukhtars and tribal leaders.” Netanyahu promised that the Gaza Strip would not be Hamadan or Fatahdan. Then it was Hamalistan. The older among us remember that this invention was attempted once in 1977 and ended in failure. In those days they were called village societies. As during the British rule, the Mukhtars managed the lives of the people under the authority of a military ruler. It didn't succeed then and it won't succeed now, while Yahya Sinwar and his cohorts kill collaborators for much less than that.
