The foreign minister of USA Marco Rubio said today that a permanent split is not being considered Gaza Strip despite the fact that Israel controls almost half of the territories.
As part of the agreement reached under the auspices of the US, the Israeli army withdrew to the east of the so-called “yellow line” that runs from the north to the south of Gaza. It thus maintains control over half of the Gaza Strip.
The US ruled out the possibility of reconstruction aid going to the zone currently controlled by Hamas.
Rubio said an international force, which the US is trying to assemble, would be deployed to guarantee security throughout the Gaza Strip.
“I think, ultimately, the goal of the stabilization force is to move that (yellow) line until it covers, hopefully, the entire Gaza Strip, which means the entire Gaza Strip will be demilitarized,” the US secretary told reporters accompanying him on his trip from Israel to Asia.
“Ultimately, the more demilitarized Gaza becomes, the more terrorism will be eliminated in Gaza, the more it will resemble that green zone, and consequently that line will move,” he explained.
“This is the plan for the long term,” he said, adding that “the Israelis have made it clear that they are not interested in occupying Gaza.”
Under the agreement, in addition to the gradual withdrawal of the Israeli military, the US plan foresees that Hamas will be excluded from the future governance of Gaza and its arsenal will be destroyed.
Trump’s new ultimatum to Hamas to return the bodies of the hostages
At the same time, Donald Trump again threatened Hamas to return the bodies of the hostages within the next 48 hours, or the rest of the countries participating in the Middle East peace agreement will take action.
“Hamas must start returning the bodies quickly,” he stressed, but admitted that some are difficult to recover. But he emphasized that “other bodies can be returned now and for some reason they are not returned”.
“Let’s see what they do in the next 48 hours,” he concluded, saying he was monitoring the situation “very closely.”