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Two Israeli Knesset members, from both the coalition and the opposition, published an article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, calling for the formulation of a plan to tras*fer parts of the population from the Gaza Strip to countries that agree to accept them.


MKs Danny Danon of Likud, former ambassador to the UN, and Ram Ben Barak of opposition party Yesh Atid, former deputy director of the Mossad, wrote that "even if countries took in as few as 10,000 people each, it would help alleviate the crisis" in Gaza.


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They pointed to last month's UN resolution calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce,” but said that UN resolutions "are doing nothing tangible to help Gaza’s residents," imploring the international community to "explore potential solutions to help civilians caught in the crisis."



Their article ended by saying that "The international community has a jovenlandesal imperative – and an opportunity – to demonstrate compassion, help the people of Gaza move toward a more prosperous future and work together to achieve greater peace and stability in the Middle East.”



Their proposal came on the heels of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning to members of his cabinet to “be careful with your words” in the wake of Israeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter’s statement that “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”


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Gaza residents evacuating towards the south of the Strip, on Friday.Credit: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/Reuters
When later asked if this means Gaza City residents won’t be allowed to return, he replied: “I don’t know how it’ll end up happening since Gaza City is one-third of the Strip – half the land’s population but a third of the territory.”


"Nakba" is just the Arabic word for disaster. After 1948, with the definite article “al” (i.e., al-Nakba), it became the proper name for the displacement of hundreds of thousands of persons and the establishment of a Jewish state ***owing the Israeli War of Independence.


Israel has called on residents of northern Gaza to evacuate the area and head south to safer areas while its forces fight against Hamas, which is deeply entrenched in Gaza City, occupying a warren of tunnels located under civilian neighborhoods.


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Palestinians fleeing Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza, on Thursday.Credit: MAHMUD HAMS - AFP
More than 1.5 million Gazans have been displaced since the beginning of Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip. Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the United Nations agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees, has said that the current conflict is “reminiscent” of the Nakba for many Palestinians.



Members of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition have engaged in increasingly bellicose and controversial rhetoric regarding Gaza, with one minister musing about the possibility of dropping an atomic weapon on the coastal territory and others advocating the rebuilding of settlements in the Gaza Strip which were evacuated during Israel’s 2005 disengagement.


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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed Danon and Ben Barak’s plan, writing that "this is the humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza and the entire region after 75 years of refugees, poverty, and danger."


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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset, this month.Credit: Oren Ben Hakoon‎
Smotrich emphasized that "a small area like the Gaza Strip, without natural resources and independent sources of livelihood, has no chance of sustaining itself independently, economically and politically ... Therefore, the absorption of refugees by countries of the world that truly want their best interests, with generous financial support and assistance from the international community, including the State of Israel, is the only solution that will bring an end to the suffering and pain of both Jews and Arabs alike.”



The proposal was also welcomed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a ***ower of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated expelling Arab Israelis and Palestinians from Israel and the territories.


“At the moment of truth, everyone speaks about Jewish power,” he tweeted, riffing off of the name of his Otzma Yehudit party.


Challenged by Channel 12 correspondent Zion Nanous, who accused him of advocating a Kahane-style “tras*fer” of the population of Gaza, Danon tweeted that “nobody is talking about a tras*fer.”



“We want to give those who want to leave Gaza to another country the opportunity to do so,” he replied, arguing that the residents of Gaza “are currently held hostage by a murderous terrorist organization.”


A new document recently drafted by Israel’s Intelligence Ministry suggested that Israel might initially relocate the population of the Strip to tent cities to be ***owed later by the establishment of permanent communities in northern Sinai.


The U.S. has publicly and privately opposed such plans. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called it a “non-starter” after his shuttle diplomacy
immediately after October 7, and Joe Biden affirmed to Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi that “Palestinians in Gaza are not displaced to Egypt or any other nation.”


The Intelligence Ministry confirmed the existence of the document, but a source familiar with the drafting of it said the cabinet isn’t expected to debate the proposal and that the Intelligence Ministry is not the government entity that would be responsible for such decision-making.


Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi has previously rejected his country accepting Palestinian refugees from Gaza, stating that any such move would turn the Egyptian peninsula into a base for attacks against Israel.


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The Gaza Strip is effectively under Israeli control and Palestinians could instead be moved to Israel's Negev desert "till the militants are dealt
with," al-Sissi told a joint press conference in Cairo with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last month.


"Egypt rejects any attempt to resolve the Palestinian issue by military means or through the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land, which would come at the expense of the countries of the region," he said.


Speaking with the Financial Times last month, a European diplomat described being told by an Egyptian official that his country would not, under any circumstances, accept Palestinian refugees, declaring “You want us to take one million people? Well, I am going to send them to Europe. You care about human rights so much – well, you take them.”


Jonathan Lis, Ben Samuels and Reuters contributed to this report.