Israel's principles for putting an end to the war include Israeli security control of Gaza

Israel's security cabinet has accepted five principles for ending the Gaza conflict, including "Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip" and a new civilian government to oversee the enclave, the Prime Minister's Office announced Friday.

Here are the five principles: The disarming of Hamas. Return of all the hostages – the living and the dead. The demilitarization of Gaza. Israeli security control in Gaza. The establishment of a civil administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority.

“A decisive majority of Security Cabinet ministers believed that the alternative plan that had been submitted to the Security Cabinet would neither achieve the defeat of Hamas nor the return of the hostages,” the office said.

Before the security cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel does not wish to administer Gaza. “We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us and giving Gazans a good life – that’s not possible with Hamas,” he said.