Israel's representative has told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on the Israeli government's plan for its security forces to take control of Gaza City that his country "has no plans or desire to permanently occupy Gaza". Its latest decision is to liberate the Strip from a terror regime.
He cited the five clear principles that the Israeli security cabinet adopted for concluding the war: the disarming of Hamas; the return of all hostages, both living and deceased; the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip; and the establishment of a non-Israeli, peaceful civil administration governed neither by Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority.
by Joji Xavier
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