Netanyahu does not want the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza and accuses it of “denying the massacre” of the festival

2023-11-19 21:47:11

The door quickly closed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any return of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to power in the occupied West Bank in the Gaza Strip after the war, according to several Israeli media.

While American President Joe Biden pleaded on Saturday in an article published in the Washington Post for a reunification of Gaza and the West Bank after the conflict, under the governance of a “revitalized Palestinian Authority”, the Israeli Prime Minister quickly showed his disagreement.

“The Palestinian Authority, in its current form, is not able to take responsibility for Gaza,” Netanyahu ruled out on Saturday. “After we fought and did all this (in the Gaza Strip), how could we hand it over to them? “, he added according to the Jerusalem Post.

The head of the Hebrew state went even further this Sunday, accusing the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, of “denying the massacre” of the “Tribe of Nova” Festival, according to Israeli media Time et I24News.

“In addition to having refused to condemn the Hamas massacre for 44 days, (…) the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen (the other name of Mahmoud Abbas) now denies its existence,” protested Benyamin Netanyahu.

A statement from the AP in the viewfinder

The Israeli Prime Minister is referring, according to Time, to a statement from the Palestinian Authority which claims that an Israeli armed forces helicopter caused several collateral casualties while trying to eliminate Hamas terrorists who were attacking the festival. Information that the Parisian was not able to verify.

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“In the aftermath of the elimination of Hamas, we will not allow the one who runs the civilian administration of Gaza to deny terrorism, to support terrorism, to pay for terrorism and to educate his children for terrorism and destruction of the State of Israel,” Benjamin Netanyahu also declared.