Israel’s ambassador to the United States is important of Germany’s recommendation that the U.N. take control in Gaza, suggesting rather that Israel regulate the Palestinian area for an “undefined period of time.”

“I’m not sure the U.N. model is the best model because we don’t have a good experience with U.N.-mandated forces,” Herzog claimed on Wednesday in a meeting with POLITICO’s Power Play podcast.

“It’s highly political, we all understand that.” 

Israel struck back with everyday airstrikes and a ground procedure in densely-populated Gaza after Hamas struck Israel on October 7, eliminating 1,200 individuals. Israeli strikes have actually eliminated greater than 11,000 Palestinians — consisting of greater than 4,500 youngsters — and hurting 10s of thousands of others, according to the Palestinian Authority. 

Israel likewise enforced a full siege on Gaza in the days after October 7, suffocating the area and removing food, gas, water and electrical power to 2.2 million individuals, a lot of of whom count on help prior to the siege. The clog caused what numerous U.N. authorities and worldwide companies have actually called a altruistic dilemma. Gaza’s biggest health center, Al-Shifa, has actually stopped to be functional in current days as it went out of gas, closing down life-saving tools.

Germany drifted the idea that the United Nations might take control in Gaza when the Israel-Hamas battle mores than, in a file seen by POLITICO.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen resembled the U.N. idea in her speech recently to the bloc’s ambassadors, however EU mediators and the Palestinian side opposed the proposition. The idea is “unacceptable,” Abdalrahim Alfarra, head of the Palestinian Mission to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg informed POLITICO. 

The function of the U.N., Alfarra said, is to give worldwide defense at the boundaries in between 2 future nations, Israel and Palestine. Contrarily, the German recommendation is that the U.N. take “control of Gaza,” he claimed.  

Israel’s Herzog likewise opposed the suggested U.N. function in Gaza — albeit for various factors. “We need an effective force on the ground that can deal with terrorists and their infrastructure. That’s what we’re looking for. And there’s more than one model for that,” he said.

Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Israel would certainly take “overall security responsibility” for Gaza “for an indefinite period.” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU leading mediator Josep Borrell opposed this, stating Israel cannot reoccupy Gaza after the battle finishes. 

Addressing concerns of even more Israeli line of work, Herzog claimed he “believe[s] that what our prime minister was aiming at was not that we will occupy Gaza, reoccupy Gaza, but rather that for an undefined period of time, we’ll still have to target terrorists in Gaza.”

However, Herzog duplicated Netanyahu’s factor that “even after we conclude the current phase of our operations, there will still be military infrastructure and terrorists that have to be dealt with. And for an undefined period of time, Israel will have to continue to carry out operations in Gaza. But we are open to other forces going in, regional or international.”

Herzog dismissed a cease-fire, stating it would certainly “just invite the next war.”