The status of protected and neutral zones could be part of a political-security package that includes Hamas’ commitment to a long term period of calm to allow restoration of the Gaza Strip
Recalculating the Gaza Route: Reconstruction of an Autonomous Area with Protected Zones
Operation Protective Edge ended in August 2014, leaving the Gaza Strip in a complex humanitarian reality. Infrastructures were destroyed, and some 100,000 people were left homeless. The economic situation deteriorated dramatically due to the fighting and Egypt’s harsh policy toward Hamas and the Gaza Strip, with the area cut off almost entirely from Egypt and the smuggling industry via the tunnels along the Philadelphi corridor destroyed.
