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Board of Peace Official: Reconstruction of Gaza Will Not Happen Without Dismantling Hamas
(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - A senior official involved in the new Board of Peace said, "The development and reconstruction of Gaza will not happen without the dismantling of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza. Trump's preference is for this to happen in good faith and with agreement under significant pressure from mediators, but everyone understands that if it doesn't go the easy way it will go the hard way, and Hamas will be disarmed by Israel. That is the starting point of the plan." He noted that the very fact that Muslim and Arab states, including Turkey and Qatar, have signed a document stating that Hamas must disarm and Gaza be demilitarized is a "huge achievement" for Israel. "First, Hamas will need to surrender its heavy weapons - rockets, machine guns - and identify all tunnels to be dismantled. Then it will have to turn in Kalashnikov rifles. We start with the most dangerous threats - missiles, production labs and tunnels. This is a strategically critical issue, and then we move to light arms." The inclusion of Qatar and Turkey in the Board of Peace "is simply part of integrating all regional actors for this issue....Overall, we moved from a situation where the UN was entirely against Israel, to a Board of Peace that the UN decided to hand responsibility over to, and that supports Israel's goals of disarmament, demilitarization and reconstruction and ultimately regional peace and expansion of the Abraham Accords."