A senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will seek a “security envelope” with special zones and arrangements that will prevent Hamas from being positioned on its border after the military offensive in Gaza is over, Reuters reports.

Reuters has reported that Israel has informed several Arab states that it wants to carve out a buffer zone on the Palestinian side of Gaza’s border to prevent future attacks as part of proposals for the coastal enclave after the fighting ends.

Asked whether Israel was indeed seeking such a buffer zone, senior adviser Mark Regev told reporters: “Israel will have to have a security envelope. We can never again allow terrorists to cross the border and butcher our people the way they did on October 7.

“If you ask me about a buffer zone, let me be clear; you won’t have a situation in the future where you can have Hamas terrorists on the border, directly on the border, positioned just to cross over and kill our people again.

“That is not Israel taking territory from Gaza,” said Regev. “On the contrary, that is creating security zones where you have a special situation on the ground which limits the ability of people to enter Israel to kill our people. It’s common sense.”