Israel Says ‘No’ to 15-Point Plan on Gaza Reconstruction; ‘Genuine Disarmament, Not Fictitious Disarmament’

Israel is rejecting a 15-point Gaza proposal put forward by the Board of Peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, declaring that Israeli forces will not withdraw from the enclave until Hamas fully gives up its weapons.

It would be madness not to disarm Hamas.

“Israel rejects the 15-point Gaza document proposed by the Board of Peace,” Netanyahu said at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting. “The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed.”

Israel remains in discussions with the United States over the disarmament of Hamas but insisted any agreement would have to result in the terror group surrendering its entire arsenal, according to Netanyahu.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and the nation as a whole are unwilling to move forward with a plan that does not include genuine disarmament of Hamas. They have seen it Lebanon with Hezbollah and, in earlier chapters with Hamas:

The terrorists will give lip service to giving up their weapons. Actually giving them up is something else entirely. Jerusalem Post: Israel rejected the 15-point plan for the Gaza Strip proposed by the Board of Peace, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared while speaking in a Sunday afternoon cabinet meeting. “Israel rejects the 15-point Gaza document proposed by the Board of Peace,” Netanyahu said. “The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed.” Netanyahu also reiterated his opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state. “As for the Gaza Strip, first of all, I want to make the main point clear: as long as I am prime minister, there will be no Palestinian state, not in Gaza and not in Judea and Samaria. Neither ‘Fatahstan’ nor ‘Hamastan,’” he said. Netanyahu added that Israel was currently in talks with the US about the disarmament of Hamas, but emphasized that it would need to be “genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament” (Jerusalem Post).