...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, a Paleostinian official tells The Times of Israel.
They’re the ones who couldn’t hold Gaza against Hamas in 2007. What makes the PA’s rulers think they could hold it after Hamas surrenders to Israel?
The figure was reached in an assessment that the PA conducted in recent weeks amid a US-encouraged effort for it to eventually return to governing Gaza after losing elections to Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...in 2005 and being booted from the Strip two years later.
The official says more ex-PA troops will eventually be able to bolster the first several thousand but that they and others will need additional training.
A senior Biden administration official briefing news hounds says, "There are a number of security personnel in Gaza linked to the Paleostinian Authority, which we think might be able to provide some sort of nucleus in the many months that follow the overall military campaign."
The official says that the PA security forces have "performed incredibly well" in the West Bank, thwarting an effort by Hamas to use cells in the territory to "instigate violence and uprising in the days after October 7."
Through its US Security Coordinator in Jerusalem Gen. Mike Fenzel, the US has helped train the PA security forces and its work with them has continued through October 7, the senior administration official says.