{"id":303187,"date":"2025-02-07T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303187"},"modified":"2025-02-09T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T08:23:13","slug":"israels-defence-minister-orders-army-to-prepare-for-gaza-residents-departure-after-controversial-trump-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303187","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s defence minister orders army to prepare for Gaza residents\u2019 departure, after controversial Trump plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters \u2013 Feb 6, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel\u2019s defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow the \u201cvoluntary departure\u201d of residents from Gaza, Israeli media said, after President Trump drew widespread condemnation over U.S. plans to take over the strip.<\/p>\n

The instruction followed Trump\u2019s shock announcement that the United States plans to take over Gaza, resettle the Palestinians living there and transform the territory into the \u201cRiviera of the Middle East\u201d.**<\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome President Trump\u2019s bold plan, Gaza residents should be allowed the freedom to leave and emigrate, as is the norm around the world,\u201d Israel\u2019s Channel 12 quoted Katz as saying.<\/p>\n

When asked who will take in the Palestinians, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said it should be countries who have opposed Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cCountries like Spain, Ireland, Norway, and others, which have levelled accusations and false claims against Israel over its actions in Gaza, are legally obligated to allow any Gaza resident to enter their territories,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir hypocrisy will be exposed if they refuse to do so. There are countries like Canada, which has a structured immigration program, that have previously expressed a willingness to accept Gaza residents.\u201d Trump\u2019s controversial idea, which has sparked anger around the Middle East, comes as Israel and Hamas are expected to begin talks on the second round of a fragile ceasefire plan to end almost 16 months of fighting in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Katz\u2019s plan will include exit options via land crossings, as well as special arrangements for departure by sea and air, Channel 12 reported.<\/p>\n

International condemnation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trump drew rebukes on Wednesday over his plan for Gaza from world powers Russia, China and Germany, which said it would foster \u201cnew suffering and new hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia rejected the proposal outright and Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah, who will meet Trump at the White House next week, said on Wednesday he rejected any attempts to annex land and displace Palestinians.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Iran\u2019s foreign ministry said Trump\u2019s plan is part of Israel\u2019s attempt to \u201ccompletely wipe out the Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Trump\u2019s proposal was \u201cremarkable\u201d and urged that it be explored, even as he was not specific about what he believed Trump was offering.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said he did not believe Trump suggested sending U.S. troops to fight Hamas in Gaza, or that Washington would finance rebuilding efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first good idea that I\u2019ve heard,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s a remarkable idea, and I think it should be really pursued, examined, pursued and done, because I think it will create a different future for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamas, which ruled the Gaza Strip before the war, said Trump\u2019s proposal was \u201cridiculous and absurd\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since Jan. 25, Trump has repeatedly suggested that Palestinians in Gaza should be taken in by regional Arab nations such as Egypt and Jordan, an idea rejected by both the Arab states and Palestinian leaders. He has given no specifics of his proposal to take over Gaza.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s aides defended his proposal but backed away from elements of it after international condemnation.<\/p>\n

Rights groups have condemned as ethnic cleansing Trump\u2019s suggestion that Palestinians in the enclave should be permanently displaced, while also proposing a U.S. takeover of Gaza.<\/p>\n

U.S. ally Israel\u2019s military assault on Gaza, now paused by a fragile ceasefire, has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in the last 16 months, the Gaza health ministry says, and provoked accusations of genocide and war crimes that Israel denies.<\/p>\n

The assault repeatedly internally displaced nearly all of Gaza\u2019s population and caused a hunger crisis.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When asked who will take in the Palestinians, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said it should be countries who have opposed Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza. \u201cCountries like Spain, Ireland, Norway, and others \u2026are legally obligated to allow any Gaza resident to enter their territories,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":303189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303188,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303187\/revisions\/303188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}