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Katz denies telling US official Israel doesn’t want control over Gaza after war
Defense Minister Israel Katz at the Knesset, December 16, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg FLASH90)
Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israel will continue to rule over Gaza militarily after the war, pushing back on an earlier TV report.
“Once we defeat Hamas’s military power and ruling power in Gaza, Israel will control security in Gaza with full freedom to act, just as in Judea and Samaria,” he says in a statement, in reference to the West Bank.
“We will not allow any terrorist activity against Israeli communities and citizens from Gaza. We will not allow a return to the pre-October 7 reality.”
Katz makes the comment after Channel 12 reported that he told a senior US official in recent days that “Israel doesn’t want either military rule or civil rule over the residents” of Gaza.
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