FRANCE 24 spoke to Dennis Ross, a former US Middle East chief negotiator, who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The ex-US envoy said he believes that "Israel is pretty close to completing the dismantling of Hamas as a military", which is "back to being a militia and engaging in an insurgency". However, he regretted that there was "no answer on the Israeli side" to the issue of post-war planning for Gaza, saying "I think the Biden administration should be focused on that."
Speaking in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US "in the coming weeks" will present "key elements of the day-after planning including concrete ideas for how to manage governance, security, reconstruction".
