US President Joe Biden’s administration has been privately pressing Israel in recent days to develop a concrete strategy for a scenario in which it achieves its stated goal of overthrowing the leadership of Hamas in Gaza, US and Israeli officials told The Times of Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle have told their American counterparts that Israel has not yet developed such a strategy and that it is more focused on the immediate goal of removing Hamas from power in Gaza, a US official was quoted as saying by News.ro.

“We’re not thinking about what’s going to happen the day after the war right now… We have to win this war and that’s the only thing we’re focused on,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, told CNN on Sunday. .

A US official who spoke to The Times of Israel cautions against such an approach. He said that in the absence of a strategy to determine who will control Gaza if and when Hamas is driven out, the Israeli army will likely be stuck in Gaza indefinitely, despite Israel insisting it does not want to recapture the enclave.

On the other hand, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel that National Unity Party Chairman Benny Gantz and his factional colleague Gadi Eisenkot were demanding an exit strategy from Gaza when they agreed to step in at a time of emergency. of the union government and have already entrusted the commission with its preparation.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Israel for the second time in a few days on Monday, after a diplomatic marathon in the region, and had meetings, including with members of the Israeli government’s military cabinet. (News.ro)