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Senior Security Official: “We Mustn’t Abandon the Clans to Hamas”

A senior Israeli security official told reporters, in remarks published by Yossi Yehoshua, that Israel should not abandon local clans to Hamas control and must instead incorporate them into any wider post-conflict arrangement. “We must not abandon the clans to Hamas,” the official said. “They should be part of the overall arrangement; it is possible to bring them closer to the border and transfer regional control to them with humanitarian assistance.” The source framed the proposal as a broader diplomatic signal: “This is an important message to those who aided Israel — not only in Gaza but across the Middle East. Everyone saw that we defended the Druze in the Golan Heights, and today they understand how much that mattered.”