Updated 03.35 | Published 03.24
full screen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Archive image. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP/TT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes that Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza demilitarized and Palestinian society deradicalized before peace can be reached.
It will require the establishment of a temporary security zone on the edge of Gaza and control against arms smuggling on the border between Gaza and Egypt, Netanyahu writes in a debate article in the Wall Street Journal.
He dismisses that the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank can take over in Gaza.
“For the foreseeable future, Israel will have to retain primary security responsibility over Gaza,” Netanyahu writes.