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00:00 First, Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted a plan outlining what role the State of Israel
00:05 will play in the Gaza Strip once the war ends.
00:07 The blueprint is the first formal post-war vision presented to Parliament.
00:12 The plan, that's scanned on details, calls for Israel to control security in a demilitarized
00:18 Gaza Strip.
00:19 We can now go across to ABC correspondent Jordana Miller standing by in Jerusalem.
00:24 Jordana, good afternoon.
00:25 Will there be any Palestinian role at all in this post-war scenario?
00:31 Well according to Israel's Prime Minister, the Palestinian Authority appears not to have
00:36 any role in his vision of post-war Gaza.
00:41 He did not mention the Palestinian Authority by name and everyone really already knew that
00:46 the Prime Minister was going to insist that Israel would have a security role for an undetermined
00:53 amount of time in the Gaza Strip, but everyone was looking closely to see how he would lay
00:58 out the parties that would take responsibility for civil governance in the Gaza Strip.
01:06 Who would provide and be in charge of medicine or education, etc.
01:13 And that role has been given to what Netanyahu calls local, local parties, local governance
01:21 and not the Palestinian Authority.
01:25 Does he leave elbow room for them to come in since he doesn't outright reject the Palestinian
01:29 Authority in this plan?
01:31 Maybe, but for Ramallah that's not good enough.
01:35 They've already rejected this saying, you know, the only future for Gaza is one in which
01:39 the Palestinians have a role.
01:41 Jordana, the head of Israeli intelligence is due in Paris for further talks on a ceasefire
01:48 deal.
01:49 He said that those talks were reportedly positive, those talks in Egypt.
01:54 Now there is pressure mounting on the Israeli side to to clinch an agreement before the
02:00 start of Ramadan.
02:01 That's right.
02:02 It's clear here that President Biden has, you know, really put a lot of pressure on
02:10 Hamas and on Israel to try to come to a deal.
02:13 He sent his special envoy to the region this week.
02:17 And there seems to have been some movement.
02:20 Netanyahu, you know, was was against any kind of participation by the Israelis in talks
02:28 unless Hamas softened their position on some of what he called delusional demands, but
02:33 what the United States called non-starters.
02:35 So it appears that somewhere, and it's likely on the issue of the identity and number of
02:41 Palestinian prisoners to be released, the ratio between those and each hostage to be
02:46 released instead of hundreds.
02:49 It appears that Hamas may have softened their position on that, as well as declarations
02:55 that the war would end, which obviously Israel is against, and maybe some of the positions
03:01 of where the Israeli troops would be.
03:04 It's clear that the United States wants to clinch a deal before Ramadan, which starts
03:09 on March 10th.
03:11 And that is really also one of Israel's interests, even though it keeps threatening an operation
03:16 in Rafa.
03:17 Ramadan is always a time of increased tension, tension and violence.
03:22 And Israel certainly wants to avoid that, as does the United States.
03:28 And in particular, given how high the tensions are on the northern border and the volley
03:34 between Israel and Hezbollah, which with both sides deepening their attacks on each side
03:40 of the border, it is really a dangerous time to go into Ramadan still fighting.
03:47 And so we're going to have to wait and see what happens in Paris this weekend.
03:51 But there's certainly cautious optimism that Israel has agreed to this round.