American security entrepreneurs are engaged in helping the return of displaced Palestinians to the devastated north of Gaza’s belt, which is the next step in the fire interruption agreement between Israel and Hamas, according to four officials I am introduced to this issue.
The performers are willing to help ensure the key zone that divides the gauze into two parts and is known as the Netzarim corridor, said officials who wanted to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The contractors intend to inspect vehicles transporting Palestinians from the south of the weapon enclave, officials said.
In the first days of the war, the Israeli army ordered the massive evacuation of the northern Gaza, forcing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to escape south. For months, Israeli soldiers have patrolled the corridor Netzarim in part to prevent Palestinians from returning north.
But according to the conditions of the 42-day break of the fire, which is now in its fifth day, Israeli troops were to be partially withdrawn over the weekend and enable the inhabitants of Gaza to go north. The certificate, which came into force on Sunday, mediated Qatar, Egypt and the United States.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, said for months that Israel would not allow the armed fighters to return to the northern Gaza belt. The mediators sought to find a compromise between the security requirements of Israel and Hamas’s conditions for Israeli withdrawal.
The residents of Gaza traveling on foot will be allowed to return without inspection, according to a copy of one of the annex to the interruption of the fire shared by The New York Times. By appointment, private entrepreneurs should start checking the gaza vehicles that go north as early as Saturday.
But it was not clear when the mechanism would enter into force, and two officials said it could take several weeks.
One of the companies assigned to the corridor is Safe Reach Solutions, which implements logistics and planning, according to a spokesman for the company, who sought anonymity to discuss sensitive operations.
Safe Reach Solutions will monitor the operational management of crossings, said the other person familiar with his work, while the other two companies – one American and one Egyptian – will perform real inspections. It is not yet clear who will finance the artist’s engagement.
The company’s website, which seems to have been registered in 2024 and created in 2025, contains almost no concrete information about the activities of the organization, financing or members of the staff. The company also seems to have social media accounts on Instagram and Threads, but both are empty.
The US officials have not visited Gaza’s belt for years, both for security reasons and because of the official policy of ban on contact with Hamas, de facto enklav rulers.
Many of the more than a million displaced people from Gaza have tucked into the “humanitarian zone”, which was determined by Israel along the southern coast in Al-Mawasi. Most of them lived in miserable tent camps where finding enough food, pure water and protection against time -free daily struggles.
For months, they have hoped to return to their homes in the north – although it is not clear how many of these homes still stand in the midst of Israeli ruthless campaign against Hamas.
“At the very least, I will lift the tent in the ruins,” said Bilal Kuheil, a resident of Gaza, who said his house was destroyed in the first days of the war.
Israel hopes that private security guards will eventually form a core of larger international forces, aided by the Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which will manage gauze in the future, two officials said. Emirates and Saudis are not currently involved, they added.
But after the end of the fire, Hamas, who led the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, who began the war, re -imposed himself, sending their fighters to paradate the streets of gauze in a demonstration of strength. The paintings diminished the hopes of Israel that they would demolish a militant group, despite the 15 months of war in Gaza, which was killed by more than 45,000 people, according to health officials in Gaza.
Aric Toler and Riley Mellen contributed to reporting.
