must include palestinian self-determination. it can t take land away from the palestinians and it must have support from the palestinians. so israel imposing its own idea on who should control parts of the gaza strip is something the international community has said they will not be entertaining. thank you very much. joining us now, a journalist who spent more than two decades covering the conflict between the israelis and the palestinians. tell me about what we saw today with with the israeli supreme court because this is a story we covered before the war. the protests surrounding what netanyahu was trying to do to weaken the supreme court and how the country felt like it was tearing itself in two and the warnings by the way from military officials said israel
was showing itself to be weak and target for an attack. so what happened today regarding the supreme court and this new law or this new bill that netanyahu passed to make the government more powerful and the court weaker? you get the impression that hamas have been studying israelis much closer than netanyahu has been studying israelis. so what happened, as you said, netanyahu returned to power a year ago, immediately launched what he called a judicial review which was widely understood by israelis to be an attempted takeover of the leaders of power. this caused massive, millions of people to revolt, take to the streets for weeks, months on end. in the end, his government managed to pass only one law out of the package of about 100 laws they hoped to pass.
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the region bracing for the attacks. what about the meeting between government officials about the day after in gaza? we ve been asking officials what s going to happen for months now. i ve never gotten a straight answer out of anybody. can you tell me what discussions are being had and who might be in charge? reporter: this has been the big question who told me israel foresees retaining security control indefinitely. when it comes to civilian governance, they want to see local gazans clans or tribes take on that responsibility. they also want to see a security perimeter in the gaza strip although they re not saying whether that would involve israeli land or palestinian land. so this is likely to face some very difficult questions from the u.s. government which has said any plan for after this war
joyce, thank you very much. and coming up, what made harvard s president suddenly resign today? plus, first and earthquake then this. what caused a passenger jet to burst into flames at tokyo s international airport? first though, hamas says israel killed one of its senior leaders as israel plans for the day after in gaza. we have the details on both of those stories, next. e details of those stories, next.