A high-ranking official of the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas said tonight that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for the “day after” in the Gaza Strip “will never succeed”, at a press conference in Beirut.

“As for after (the war) in Gaza Strip Netanyahu is presenting ideas that he knows very well will never succeed,” Osama Hamdan said.

The document Netanyahu submitted Thursday night to his government’s security council reiterates the Israeli military’s goals in Gaza: dismantling Hamas and Islamic Jihad and release of hostages still held in the Palestinian enclave.

The Israeli military “will exercise security control over the entire area west of Jordan, including the Gaza Strip” to “prevent the strengthening of terrorist elements” and eliminate “threats against Israel,” it said. text that came to the knowledge of the French Agency today.

The Israel it will also maintain “freedom of movement throughout the Gaza Strip, without time limit.”

“This plan will not come true (…) because the reality of Gaza and the reality of the Palestinians can only be determined by the Palestinians themselves,” Hamdan said.

THE Netanyahu “he refuses to recognize a Palestinian state (…) This raises the question of whether he and others like him are qualified to hold political discussions with the Palestinians,” he added.