Netanyahu supports Trump's Gaza takeover, military is planning migration

Von WOM

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has supported President Donald Trump's proposal to take control of the Gaza Strip. At the same time, his Defense Minister has instructed the Israeli armed forces to develop a plan that should enable the "voluntary departure" of the Palestinian residents from Gaza.

Netanyahu praises Trump's idea

"This is the first good idea that I have heard. It is a remarkable idea, and I think it should really be persecuted, checked and implemented because it could create another future for everyone," said Netanyahu in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. He added: "What is wrong with the opportunity to give the Gazans who want to go, go?" He emphasized that Palestinians who leave Gaza could return after completing the reconstruction work.

Trump's controversial plans

On Tuesday, Trump announced a plan at a joint press conference with Netanyahu, which provided for a "long -term takeover" of the Gaza Strip by the USA. In it, the resettlement of the residents to neighboring countries and the redesign of the Palestinian area should be "Riviera of the Middle East".

The proposal raises the question of whether Palestinians can be violently removed from their home and breaks with decades of U.S. foreign policy, which previously emphasized a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Critics warn that Trump's plan could also violate international law, possibly equal ethnic purges and could lead to US troops being involved in a conflict again in the Middle East. Officials of the White House also put some details of the plan into perspective.

international and regional reactions

leading politicians in the region, Palestinian officials and many western allies of the United States have largely rejected Trump's comments on the relocation of the Gaza residents. The spokesman for the Katar Foreign Ministry, Majed al Ansari, said on Wednesday that Arab states are planning to rebuild Gaza while the Palestinians stay in the enclave.

"voluntary departure" and their feasibility

On Thursday, Defense Minister Israel Katz indicated the Israeli defense forces to prepare a plan for "enabling the voluntary departure of Gaza residents", as can be seen from a declaration by the Ministry of Defense. Katz said: "I have instructed the IDF to create a plan that enables the voluntary departure of Gaza residents." He welcomed Trump's "Brave Initiative", which could enable a large part of the population of Gaza to move to different places worldwide.

Katz added that Trump's plan would take “many years”, while the Palestinians integrated into other countries and long-term reconstruction work in a demilitarized and dangerous Gaza should be facilitated according to the Hamas era. Nevertheless, analysts have expressed concerns that most of the two million people in Gaza do not want to move away, which raises the question of whether they could be removed - which is prohibited under international law.

The voices of the Gazabe residents

"This is our country and we are the honest and true owners," said Amir Karaja, a resident from Nordgaza, to CNN. "I am not driven out. Neither (Trump) nor someone else can drive us out of Gaza." There are around 5.9 million Palestinian refugees worldwide, most of them descendants of people who fled in 1948 when the foundation of Israel was founded. An estimated 90 % of Gaza -residents were driven out in the latest war, many were forced to change several times, some more than ten times, according to the UN.

It remains unclear how exactly Trump's proposed land takeover should work. In his interview with Fox, Netanyahu said that his government was still determined to destroy Hamas' military and controlling capabilities in Gaza.

sustainability of the conflict

Despite Israel's 15-month war against Hamas, who removed many of its high-ranking leaders and devastated Gaza, the militant group remains Resilient. Former US Secretary of State Antony Flasch recently said that Hamas always recruited as soon as Israel has completed military operations in Gaza. "We estimate that Hamas recruited almost as many new fighters as it lost. This is a recipe for sustainable uprising and an endless war," says flashing.

Negotiations on the extension of the Gaza cafe and the deal to release hostages, which expires on March 1st, faces an unsafe future. Netanyahu explained that his government would continue to release all remaining hostages in Gaza, but expresses his deep skepticism compared to a second negotiation phase, which provides for the full deduction of the Israeli troops from Gaza and the return of the remaining hostages there. His finance minister Bezhalel Smotrich has threatened to leave the government when the ceasefire is continued.

This is a developing story and is updated.