Days of Palestine, Reports –Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Sunday that any future cease-fire deal with the Palestinians in Gaza Strip must ensure that it would be demilitarised.
“The Gaza strip must become a demilitarised zone as an integral part of the reconstruction operation,” Rivlin said during a meeting with visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende.
Rivlin also stressed the need to control the transfer of funds into Gaza in order to avoid the possibility that Hamas takes the money over.
Latest Israeli war on the Gaza Strip ended with the announcement on August 26 of an open-ended cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions.
The devastating 51-day war on Gaza left some 2,160 people dead and more than 11,000 injured – the vast majority of them civilians – while leaving thousands of residential structures in ruins.
According to Israeli figures, 67 Israeli soldiers and five civilians were killed over the course of the war – the highest military death toll suffered by the Israeli occupation since it lost 119 troops in its 2006 war on Lebanon.
The Palestinians and the Israelis agreed to resume indirect talks within a month on fixing the cease-fire as well as other issues, including the establishment of an airport and a sea port in Gaza, the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the reconstruction of the enclave.
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