Israel to maintain security control over area west of Jordan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted a plan.

According to this plan, Israel will seek to maintain security control over the entire area west of the Jordan River after the war with Hamas ends, according to TASS.

The "day after Hamas" paper was submitted to the Israeli war cabinet and released by the country’s Foreign Ministry.

"Israel will maintain security control over the entire area west of the Jordan, including Gaza and the land, air and sea to prevent activities of terrorist groups in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip to thwart threats from them toward Israel," the plan said.

"In the immediate term, the fundamental condition for the transition to a post-war settlement is that the Israel Defence Forces [IDF] will continue the war until achieving its goals, which are the destruction of the military capabilities and governmental infrastructure of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the return of the hostages abducted on October 7, and the removal of any security threat from Gaza Strip long-term," the plan said.

Netanyahu proposed that Israel will maintain an indefinite freedom to operate throughout the entire Strip to prevent the resurgence of terror activity. Under his plan, a security buffer zone on the Palestinian side of the Strip’s border, will remain in place as long as there is a need for it.

The prime minister also called for a "southern closure" on the border between Gaza and Egypt to prevent the revival of terror activity.