TEL AVIV —Israel is pushing for the
establishment of an international peacekeeping force to secure the Gaza Strip
and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid in it, multiple Hebrew media
outlets reported Friday evening, indicating a likely coordinated leak.
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The reports all said Israeli Defense Minister
Yoav Gallant had informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had made
headway on the matter during his visit to Washington this week.
The force would be composed of troops from
three different unnamed Arab countries — though not Saudi Arabia or Qatar, the
latter being a longtime patron of Hamas that is one of the mediators in
hostage-for-truce talks. Some reports intimated that Egypt and the UAE were two
of the countries, and that the third also has a peace treaty with Israel. The
force would be managed by the US, but with no American forces on the ground.
The idea is backed by the United States, the
reports said. The force would likely be armed to uphold law and order and would
work with Gazans who don’t have links to Hamas, ostensibly figures linked to
the Palestinian Authority. US support, however, is contingent on Israel
beginning to implement a post-war plan for the rehabilitation of Gaza, such
as Gallant’s “day after” plan, which he presented three months ago, the
reports said.
Ynet reported that the progress in talks
between the US and the unnamed Arab countries is a result of visits by Israeli
defense officials to those countries and talks with the US government and
CENTCOM.
The international force’s initial task would
be to guard truck convoys containing humanitarian aid from pillaging by
desperate Gazans, as well as to secure the aid pier set to be
built by the US off the coast of the Strip, which is expected to be ready
in about a month.
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