Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has said that Tel Aviv is working to obtain a long-term arrangement in the Gaza Strip, noting this is being arranged in cooperation with Egypt and the UN, Quds Press reported yesterday.
Steinitz told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that this issue had been on the table for a couple of months.
Likud Minister Steinitz to Kann Radio: [#Gaza] is going toward a kind of calm with an arrangement or an escalation which may be very severe, including a broad military action. https://t.co/VytMTEEVHu
— Ofer Zalzberg (@OferZalzberg) July 23, 2018
He said:
“In Gaza we can either go to a continuous calm, or to a great tension permeated by a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip.”
"Minister Yuval Steinitz: In Gaza we can either go to a continuous calm, or to a great tension permeated by a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip" https://t.co/0plpj0MES3
— Brad (@usafshortwave) July 23, 2018
He added:
“We are not interested in a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, this will allow us to be free to deal with important questions such as the Iranian and Syrian issues.”
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
