The Israeli Defense Minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan aimed at allowing the “voluntary departure” of the residents of Gaza, after the US President Donald Trump made a widespread conviction to announce plans to use the band .
The Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, praised Trump’s announcement that the United States would aim to take control of Gaza, to reinstall the more than two million Palestinians who live there and transform the territory into “riviera of the means -East”.
“I welcome President Trump’s daring plan, Gaza residents should have the freedom to leave and emigrate, as is the norm around the world,” said Katz on X.
Katz said that his plan would include outing options via level crossings, as well as special arrangements for starting for sea and air.
The displacement of Palestinians is one of the most sensitive and explosive problems in the Middle East. The forced or constrained displacement of a population under military occupation is a war crime, prohibited under the Geneva conventions of 1949.
The Israeli strikes that have killed tens of thousands of people in the past 16 months have forced Palestinians to move to Gaza several times, seeking security.
But many say that they will never leave the enclave because they fear permanent displacement, such as the “Nakba” or the disaster, when hundreds of thousands have been dispossessed of houses in the war at the birth of the state of the state of the state of the state of Israel in 1948.
Many have been hunted or fled to Gaza, West Bank and neighboring Arab States, especially in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, where their descendants still live in refugee camps. Israel challenges the account where they were forced to go out.
Katz said that countries opposed to Israeli military operations in Gaza should take the Palestinians.
“Countries like Spain, Ireland, Norway and others, which have leveled accusations and false complaints against Israel, for its actions in Gaza, are legally obliged to allow any Gaza resident to enter in their territories, “he said.
“Their hypocrisy will be exposed if they refuse to do so. There are countries like Canada, which has a structured immigration program, which has already expressed its desire to accept the residents of Gaza.”
Ireland was also mentioned as a possible destination for the Palestinians by Katz, but the foreign ministry of this country quickly rejected the suggestion in a statement.
“The objective must be a massive scale of aid to Gaza, the return of the basic services and a clear framework in which displaced persons can return,” the ministry said in a statement sent by e-mail. “All contrary comments are useless and a source of distraction.”
The best aid of US President Donald Trump defend his Gaza takeover plan while critics – including world leaders, UN officials and the Palestinians themselves – condemn the idea.
The American president early Thursday explained the ideas he publicly pronounced two days earlier at the White House at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump said on social networks that “the Gaza Strip would be given to the United States by Israel at the end of the fighting” and that no soldier in the United States would be necessary “without developing.
Trump’s controversial idea, who sparked anger around the Middle East, comes when the Israel group and the Hamas militant group should start talks in the second round of a fragile ceasefire plan to put end at almost 16 months of fighting in Gaza.
The Katz plan will include exit options via earth passages, as well as special arrangements for departure by sea and air, reported the Israeli diffuser Channel 12.
Trump’s plan condemned
Trump drew on Wednesday on his plan in Gaza and the world powers of Russia, China and Germany.
Abdel Ghani, father of four children living with his family in the ruins of their Gaza City house, told Reuters in a text message they remained on the spot.
“Is he crazy?” He said of Trump. “We will not sell our lands for you, a real estate developer. We are hungry, homeless and desperate, but we are not collaborators. If he wants to help, let him come to rebuild for us here.”
The Saudi Arabian regional heavyweights rejected the proposal and the king of Jordan Abdullah, who will meet Trump at the White House next week, said on Wednesday that he had rejected any attempt to annex land and move the Palestinians.
In an article on X, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Trump’s plan was part of Israel’s attempt to “completely eliminate the Palestinian people”.
Trump’s plan “remarkable”, says Netanyahu
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Trump’s proposal was “remarkable” and urged that he was explored, even if he was not precise about what he thought Trump was offering.
Netanyahu said he didn’t believe that Trump had suggested sending American troops to fight Hamas in Gaza, or that Washington would finance reconstruction efforts.
Hamas, which led the Gaza Strip before the war, said that Trump’s proposal was “ridiculous and absurd”.
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Since January 25, Trump has repeatedly suggested that Palestinians in Gaza should be collected by regional Arab nations such as Egypt and Jordan, an idea rejected by the Arab states and the Palestinian leaders. He gave no details of his proposal to resume Gaza.
Trump collaborators defended his proposal but moved away from the elements of his after the international conviction.
The rights defense groups have condemned as ethnic cleaning of Trump’s suggestion that the Palestinians in the enclave should be moved permanently, while offering American takeover of Gaza.
The military assault of Israel against Gaza, now interrupted by a fragile ceasefire, has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in the last 16 months, said the Ministry of Health of Gaza, and caused charges genocide and war crimes which, according to Israel.
The assault has moved several times internally almost the entire population of Gaza and caused a hunger crisis. The war was triggered by an attack led by Hamas against Israel, which killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 hostages taken.
