Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galan has outlined a plan for the future administration of the Gaza Strip once the war with the Palestinian extremist organization Hamas is over.
There will be, he said, limited Palestinian authority in that territory.
Hamas would no longer control Gaza, and Israel would retain overall security control, he added.
As Israel makes plans for Gaza after the war, hostilities have continued, and according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, dozens of people have been killed in the past 24 hours.
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The Israeli offensive began after Hamas gunmen launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7, killing 1.200 people, most of them civilians, and taking about 240 people hostage.
The total number of people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel's retaliation has reached more than 22.400 by January 4, accounting for nearly one percent of the enclave's 2,3 million residents, the Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry said.
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According to the presented plan, Israel would retain overall security control over Gaza.
Multinational forces would take responsibility for rebuilding the territory after the widespread destruction caused by Israeli bombing.
Neighboring Egypt would also have an unspecified role in the plan.
But the document added that the Palestinians would be responsible for managing the territory.
"The residents of Gaza are Palestinians, therefore the Palestinian bodies will be in charge, provided there are no hostile actions or threats against the State of Israel," Galant said.
Talk of the "day after" in Gaza has led to deep disagreement in Israel.
Some far-right members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government have said that Palestinian citizens should be encouraged to leave Gaza, along with the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the territory.
Other countries in the region and some of Israel's allies rejected these controversial proposals, calling them "extremist" and "unworkable".
Netanyahu has not made a public statement about how he thinks Gaza should be governed, although he previously made similar proposals and vowed to "change the Middle East."
He said that the war in Gaza could last for several more months, with the main goal - the complete destruction of Hamas and any future threat to Israel.
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Israeli Defense Minister Galant announced the army's further plans in the next phase of the war in Gaza.
He said that Israel will focus on the north of the Gaza Strip, and operations will include raids, destruction of the Hamas tunnel network, and air and ground strikes.
In the south, the Israeli army will continue to try to trace to the leaders of Hamas and rescue the Israeli hostages, he said.
While Galant was presenting the plan, the Israeli army continued its strikes in the north and south of the Gaza Strip, including the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis.
Israel claims it targeted "terrorist infrastructure" and killed people it labeled extremists, who were said to have tried to detonate explosives near soldiers.
It was announced that Mamduh Lolo, a prominent operative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was also killed in the attacks.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said 125 people had been killed in the past 24 hours across the Strip.
A health ministry official said 14 people, including nine children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Al-Mawasi, west of the southern city of Khan Younis.
That small town was declared a "safe space" by Israeli forces for displaced Palestinians.
The Israeli military has not commented on Hamas' claims.
"It was midnight, we were sleeping when the rocket hit the tented camp," eyewitness Jamal Hamad Salah told Reuters.
"We found one body that flew 40 meters away."
The United Nations and international humanitarian organizations say that nowhere in Gaza is safe.
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