Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday spoke against the possible deployment of Turkish or Qatari soldiers to Gaza as part of efforts to maintain peace.
Netanyahu expressed opposition to the plan during a debate in the Knesset plenum. “Turkish or Qatari soldiers will not be in the Strip,” Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying.
He, however, admitted Israel has “a certain dispute” with the United States regarding the composition of the advisory council that will accompany the processes in Gaza.
Netanyahu told the parliament that Israel was approaching “Phase B” of the Trump plan, and vowed Hamas “will be disarmed, and Gaza will be demilitarized.”
The prime minister reiterated commitment to his administration’s goals, which he declared “will be achieved, either the hard way or the easy way.”
On the face off with Tehran and recent threats from its officials, Netanyahu warned that if Iran makes a mistake and attacks Israel, “we will respond with a force it has never known.”
The debate was called over the authorities’ “failure” to tame violence and crime in the Arab sector.” Mansour Abbas, the chairperson of Ra’am, decried the rise in criminality in Israel, particularly within Arab society.
Abbas stated that the country’s leadership had “failed to rise to the level of the challenge and is abandoning the lives of the country’s citizens, Jews and Arabs alike.”
Responding, the prime minister rejected the criticism of his National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and assured that the administration will wage war against criminal groups and terrorist organizations.
Netanyahu accused the previous government of causing the spike in crime in Arab communities, saying the change in funding method and dismantling of his party’s oversight mechanisms “allowed criminal organizations to take over local authorities.”
Netanyahu resists Turkish, Qatari soldiers’ deployment to Gaza
