“This is the entry ticket to implementing the Trump peace plan. Suddenly, we are hearing that full demilitarization is not really necessary—that there could be partial demilitarization, in which only heavy weapons are seized while firearms remain, or that it could be done in stages, demilitarizing a bit and rehabilitating [the Strip] a bit. We hear countries say they want to be part of the peace plan, but will not demilitarize Hamas. We hear Hamas itself say it will not demilitarize. This is what worries the government most today,” she continued.
“There is no point in taking assault weapons and leaving them with firearms. It’s an organization that is not supposed to control Gaza at all—in any capacity, civilian or military. That’s not me saying it; it’s Trump’s plan. There is no reason to leave them with toy weapons, let alone terror tunnels,” Strook added. Strook noted that approximately 70% of Hamas’s terror tunnels remain usable. “The freed hostages who returned last October said that until the very last moment they were there, Hamas continued digging tunnels. They are digging tunnels now and producing weapons,” she said. (Read More)
