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Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-12-3-23-white-house-nsc/story?id=105333629
U.S.: Palestinian Authority Right Now Lacks Credibility to Govern Gaza
(ABC News) George Stephanopoulos - U.S. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told ABC News on Sunday why the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel ended. "It fell apart because Hamas was unwilling and refused to come up with additional lists of women and children, which we know they are holding...and we could get them exchanged." "We believe [the Israelis] have been receptive to our messages here in terms of trying to minimalize civilian casualties....They published online a map of places where people could go to avoid combat, and where they could...find safety from combat. There's not a whole lot of modern militaries that would do that...to telegraph their punches in that way. So, they are making an effort." Regarding governance of Gaza after the war, "it's got to be responsive to the aspirations of the Palestinian people, and it has to be representative of them. Right now the Palestinian Authority doesn't have that credibility. So, what we want to see is a reformed PA, a revitalized Palestinian Authority that can have a voice and some measure of control over governance in Gaza." Q: Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to have ruled that out, having the PA oversee Gaza. Kirby: "What he said was right now you've got an unreformed PA. And that that's unacceptable to him. I would tell you that's unacceptable to us too. We don't believe the PA is in a position right now to be in credible control of governance in Gaza."