According to Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, who spoke on Thursday, the army should develop plans for the mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza Strip using land border crossings, sea and air travel.
Katz welcomed what he called U.S. President Donald Trump’s "bold plan" for Gaza residents to leave the territory, which has been devastated by Israeli ground and air attacks targeting Hamas militants.
Palestinian officials turned down [Trump's] offer presented in a conference held on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, regarding the United States's capture of the Gaza Strip, constrain this 2 million Palestinians to go abroad and finally leave this area on the Mediterranean basin as the "Riviera of the Middle East" [l9]. ".
Netanyahu stated late Wednesday to Fox News that the option to evacuate Palestinians (either with the population that has been forced out of Gaza by the war or other refugees) from Gaza will continue to be available when Gaza is being rebuilt and afterwards they will be able to consume Gaza.
It's a wonderful concept, and in my view, certainly warrants intensive research, further research, implementation, because, as far as I am concerned, it will lead to a changed world for everyone, Netanyahu has stated.
Trump's initiative has been met with universal disapproval, with even the United Nations U.N. , for example, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, has gone on the record Wednesday saying "forced displacement is alike, in fact, ethnic cleansing.
The partial structure of a house is a wall of sheets at the street in front of a shopping cart being rolled down by a man down a residential street on the edge of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Feb. 5, 2025.
According to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday, Trump’s calls are “causing great anxiety and even the horror of at least some, and would be ‘a serious violation of international law.
The 22-nation Arab League called for Trump's initiative to be a "recipe for instability" and it will not help to achieve the state of Palestine building process.
US has long advocated about a two-state negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
They can't stay at home", declared British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Wednesday. They are entitled to be rebuilt and we, as a result, should be with them on that rebuilding, toward a two-state settlement.
Australia, China, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Spain also stated they will maintain support for two-state solution in response to the Trump plan.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appealed to the UN "to defend the Palestinian people and to their inalienable rights", and has concluded that, along the recommendations by Trump, would be "a clear violation of international law.
Hamas also argued that Trump's Gaza plan was "a recipe to the invocation of chaos and tension in the area. At the same time, the exploitative victim of the Zionistic occupation,[5] the one who is obliged to bear the responsibility but should be charged for the act of genocide and expulsion, is being gilded and not punished.
Indeed, before Trump demanded U.S. nationhood in Gaza, Egypt and Jordan had refused in the past some time ago to accept Trump's request that the Palestinian population in Gaza should be transferred to their territories.
Egypt foreign ministry issued a statement referring to the requirement for the "return . without displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. ".
The human rights chief for the United Nations (UN), Volker Turk, stated Wednesday that it was unlawful to deport individuals from Israeli-occupied Gaza.
The right of self determination is a right guaranteed by law and must be honored by every state as reaffirmed by the most recent pronouncements by the International Court of Justice, added Turk in a release. Especially detainment, population expulsion from occupied zone, is definitely prohibited.
And U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared in a speech "we cannot make the situation worse, if trying to find solutions"(19, Lin). Compliance with the most fundamental principles of international law is crucial. Ethnic violence should in no way be allowed to happen in any shape or form, (MoAD, 2019).
Violence in Gaza has been abated after a 6-week truce between Israel and the Israeli-designated terrorist group Hamas (which is the counterpart group in the other side of the ceasefire).
Hamas started the war with an Oct 2023 attack on Israel in which the terrorists killed 1,200 and kidnapped 250 hostages.
Israel's response has so far killed over 47,500 people, most of them women and children, according to the health ministry in Gaza. The Israeli military claims to have killed 17,000 Hamas combatants [2].
It is estimated that, currently, Hamas is in possession of around 60 living hostages.
The initial phase of the ceasefire, although, militants released a total of 18 hoastagees and Israel set large numbers of Palestinian prisoners free.
It is estimated that a growing number of individuals will be set free in the weeks to come and negotiators are busy finalising the arrangements for the next stage of the ceasefire that will put an end to fighting, release the remaining hostages and allow the Israeli military to pull out of Gaza.
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