Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel has proposed promoting the “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians in Gaza outside the Strip, stressing that the idea of bringing the Palestinian Authority back to control the Strip “has failed in the past and will fail in future”.
The minister, a member of the Likud party, wrote in an article in the Israeli newspaper “The Jerusalem Post” on Sunday that “the international community must be encouraged to promote the voluntary resettlement of Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip, for humanitarian reasons. … instead of sending money to rebuild the Strip”, as is reported. An Israeli military operation since 7 October.
The spark of war was sparked on October 7, when Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, including women and children. The movement also kidnapped around 240 hostages, including foreigners, and transferred them to the Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, since that date Israel has responded with continuous bombings and ground incursions, which have resulted in the deaths of around 13,000 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, according to the health authorities of the Palestinian Strip, who are been informed controlled by Hamas since 2007.
The minister felt that “it is important to provide an opportunity for those seeking a life elsewhere,” adding: “Some world leaders are already discussing the resettlement of refugees around the world, and say they would be happy to welcome residents from Gaza to This can be supported by numerous countries around the world.” “Especially by those who claim to be friends of the Palestinians.”
Gamliel continued: “This is an opportunity for those who say they support the Palestinian people, to demonstrate that this support is not just empty words.”
The intelligence minister also wrote: “Instead of sending money for the reconstruction of Gaza or the failure of UNRWA, the international community can help finance resettlement, helping Gazans build new lives in new countries hosts”.
He continued: “This will be beneficial for both sides: for the civilians of Gaza who want a better life, and for Israel after this terrible tragedy.”
“Failed idea”
The minister also criticized the idea of bringing the Palestinian Authority back to govern Gaza after the end of the war, believing that such a solution “has failed in the past and will fail in the future. It is an option that Israeli public opinion considers illegitimate and it would bring us back to ground zero in a short time.”
In his article, which focused on the future of the Strip after the end of the war, he noted: “We have tried many different solutions: withdrawal (from settlements in the Gaza Strip)… conflict management and building high walls in the Gaza Strip.” . hope of keeping the monsters of Hamas away from Israel, but they have all failed.”
According to Agence France-Presse, approximately 80% of the population of the Gaza Strip is essentially made up of refugees, children or grandchildren of refugees who abandoned their homes during the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.
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Such statements have been repeated by Israeli officials, as Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in early November that “voluntary immigration and absorption of Gaza Arabs into countries around the world is a humanitarian solution that poses an end to the suffering of both Jews and Arabs. “
Smotrich’s statements came as a comment on a proposal presented by two members of the Israeli Knesset that “Western countries accept Gazans as refugees and resettle them.”
Israeli parliamentarians Ram Ben Barak and Danny Danon wrote an opinion piece in America’s Wall Street Journal on November 13, calling on Western countries to “accept this idea and settle a limited number of Gaza families, who have expressed a desire to relocate somewhere else”. .
Commenting on this “proposal,” Smotrich said in a Facebook post: “I welcome the initiative of Knesset members Ram Ben Barak and Danny Danon for the voluntary migration of Gaza Arabs to countries around the world,” considering that “this is the right humanitarian solution”. solution for the residents of Gaza and the entire region, after 75 years of asylum, poverty and risks.
Arab countries had rejected the “forced displacement” of residents of the Gaza Strip and described it as a “war crime”, in response to the Israeli army’s request to move civilians from the north of the Strip to the south.
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The United States has always underlined its rejection of the idea of forcibly displacing civilians from the Gaza Strip, the latest of which was mentioned by President Joe Biden in his article in the American newspaper The Washington Post on Saturday, when he underlined that Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governing structure, rejecting the idea of displacing civilians from the forced sector of the Strip.
He stated that “civilians should not be forcibly displaced from Gaza”, underlining in this context the need for Gaza and the West Bank to be unified under a single governance structure, “and ultimately under the leadership of the Palestinian Authority” .