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

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 Gaza Strip after the war, according to several Israeli media reports.

While US President Joe Biden on Saturday called for the reunification of Gaza and the post-conflict West Bank under a “renewed Palestinian Authority” in an op-ed published in the Washington Post, the Israeli prime minister was quick to show his opposition.

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

This Sunday, the head of the Jewish state went even further, accusing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of “denying the massacre” at the Tribe of Nova festival, Israeli media Haaretz and I24News reported.

“In addition to refusing to condemn the Hamas massacre for 44 days, (…) Holocaust denier Abu Mazen (another name for Mahmoud Abbas) now denies its existence,” objected Benjamin Netanyahu.

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According to Haaretz, the Israeli prime minister was referring to a Palestinian Authority statement alleging that an Israeli military helicopter caused several collateral casualties in an attempt to kill Hamas terrorists who attacked the festival. Information that the Parisian could not verify.

“After the elimination of Hamas, we will not allow the leader of the Gaza civil administration to deny terrorism, support terrorism, pay for terrorism and teach his children terrorism and the destruction of the State of Israel,” also Benjamin Netanyahu. stated.