Giora Eiland: 'Current situation in Gaza is good security-wise. Rehabilitation pilot without disarmament is a slippery slope'

Giora Eiland, former head of the National Security Council, warns that a rehabilitation pilot in Rafah without disarming Hamas is a slippery slope. According to him, the current situation is good security-wise for Israel, and rehabilitation should be avoided before Hamas is disarmed.

Giora Eiland, former head of the National Security Council, gives an interview to the 'Davar' website and warns against a rehabilitation pilot in Rafah without disarming Hamas. According to him, the current situation in Gaza is good security-wise for Israel: hostages have returned, Israel controls the eastern half of the Strip, and there is no Palestinian population in the area under IDF control. He presents three options: continuation of the current situation (the best), conditional rehabilitation on disarmament (less good), and a rehabilitation pilot without disarmament (the most dangerous). Eiland argues that as long as Hamas is armed, it will infiltrate any place Palestinians enter, and supervised policing mechanisms will not be able to prevent this. He criticizes the pushing of the yellow line, which he says is not politically or security-wise logical. Eiland calls on Israel to insist on disarmament before rehabilitation, despite international pressure.