The United States would oppose a reoccupation of Gaza by Israel’s military in post-conflict Gaza, the White House said on Tuesday.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby, who was responding to comments by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu earlier.
“Reoccupation by Israeli forces of gaza is not the right thing to do,” Kirby said. He aded that, “Israel and the United states are Friends and we do not have to agree on every single word,” and that, “Netanyahu and Biden are not always exactly in the same place on every issue.”
Netanyahu told ABC News that Gaza should be governed by “those who don’t want to continue the way of Hamas,” without elaborating.
“I think Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it. When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine,” Netanyahu said.
Kirby told reporters that Israel and the United States do not have to agree on every single issue.
