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Israelis Craft Plan to Put Anti-Hamas Palestinians in Charge of Gaza Aid
(Wall Street Journal) Summer Said - Israeli security officials are quietly developing a plan to distribute aid in Gaza that could eventually create a Palestinian-led governing authority there, Israeli and Arab officials said. A top Israeli defense official has held talks with Egypt, the UAE and Jordan to build regional support for an emerging effort to enlist Palestinian leaders and businessmen who have no links to Hamas in distributing aid. When the war is over, the people in charge of aid would assume authority to govern. "Gaza will be run by those who do not seek to kill Israelis," said a senior Israeli official from the prime minister's office. Hamas opposes the plan. One Hamas official said the group already felt it was being sidelined by the sea bridge backed by the U.S., UAE and other partners to deliver aid to Gaza.