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Inside U.S.-Palestinian Talks about Post-War Gaza


(Axios) Barak Ravid - White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met on Friday in Ramallah with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and discussed with him how the Palestinian Authority could be involved in governing Gaza after the war ends. The Biden administration is proposing the PA re-activate some of the members of its security forces who live in Gaza and were on active duty until Hamas took over in a military coup in June 2007, to prepare a local security and police force for the enclave. There were 18,000 members of the Palestinian security forces on active duty in Gaza before Hamas took control. The PA continued to pay them after 2007 even though they didn't work. The Israeli government currently opposes any return of the PA to Gaza.
2023-12-20 00:00:00
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