Kan English

The United States has asked for clarification from Israel regarding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments that Israel will hold security responsibility for the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war against the Hamas terror group. While backing Israel's right to self-defense against Hamas terror, the United States has also stressed the need to focus on the day after the war. The Biden administration has indicated the Palestinian Authority could play a role as an eventual governing body in Gaza, while Prime Minister Netanyahu, in remarks over the weekend appeared to reject this option, lambasting what he called an entity that educates children to want to eliminate Israel, supports terrorism and has net yet condemned Hamas' October 7 massacres that sparked the war. KAN's Naomi Segal asked Prof. Eytan Gilboa, an expert on US-Israel relations and a senior fellow at the  Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, if there are signs of strain in the positions between the two countries.