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Israel and U.S. are at odds over conflicting visions for postwar Gaza

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and
SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United
States has offered strong sup-
port to Israel in its war against
the Hamas militant group that
rules the Gaza Strip. But the al-
lies are increasingly at odds over
what will happen to Gaza once
the war winds down.
Israel’s prime minister, Benja-
min Netanyahu, this week an-
nounced that Israel would retain
an open-ended security pres-
ence in Gaza. Israeli officials
talk of imposing a buffer zone to
keep Palestinians away from the
Israeli border. They rule out any
role for the Palestinian Authority,
which was ousted from Gaza by
Hamas in 2007 but governs semi-
autonomous areas of the occu-
pied West Bank.
The United States has laid out
a much different vision. Top of-
ficials have said they will not al-
low Israel to reoccupy Gaza or
further shrink its already small ter-
ritory. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his office in the West Bank
city of Ramallah, on Nov. 30, 2023. )
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