The assumption that the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza or ISF would be able to prevent terrorists from regaining control over the stored weapons is totally misleading.
There is something deeply misguided – if not outright dangerous – about the idea that the US or other international parties should beg Hamas to lay down its weapons.
'We were attacked,' Minister Ze'ev Elkin noted, referencing the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led cross-border terrorist invasion from the Gaza Strip: 'There is no reason for us to pay for the reconstruction.'