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The prolonged Israel-Hamas war has resulted in grave human and physical damage to the Gaza Strip. The Mitvim Institute has been engaged since the start of the war in strategic thinking to promote Israeli policy beneficial to its security, the Gaza Strip, and the region. This has resulted in the formulation of a “humanitarian strategy” to serve as the basis for future reconstruction and rehabilitation processes of the Gaza Strip. To further this strategy, Mitvim conducted an exercise simulating a regional conference on the rehabilitation on Gaza’s infrastructure and environment to learn about the Israeli preparedness required for reconstruction, the processes that can be advanced through a regional political framework, and the challenges and opportunities inherent in them. The simulation illustrated the gap between current Israeli policy and one that would enable Israel to make the most of a regional rehabilitation conference and highlighted the need for new paradigms of thinking. The discussions emphasized the importance of addressing the different time frames in the rehabilitation process, and of linking the humanitarian act to the rehabilitation process. It also illustrated the tension between detachment and independence and dependence and connectivity in thinking about the region’s future, underscoring the vital need to immediately initiate the planning of professional alternatives for the Gaza Strip’s infrastructure and environmental rehabilitation.
