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US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew said on Friday that the US government has been telling Israel that it must come up with a post-war plan for Gaza. Speaking with Israeli publication Haaretz, Lew said, “We’ve been saying that it’s an important question for many months, we’ve spoken about this”. “There’s going to have to be an ability for Gaza to be governed, and we agree it can’t be Hamas,” the ambassador said “[Y]ou need to have a plan for what comes next. The Rafah crossing is indicative of that need to answer that question,” he added. Israel took over the Rafah border crossing at the beginnin…

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