Preliminary stage for displacement?: Israel plans to reciprocate for 600,000 Gaza residents

According to media reports, Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the planning of a huge reception camp for 600,000 Palestinians displaced by the war in the southern Gaza Strip. This is intended to weaken the power of Islamist Hamas about the population of the sealed coastal area, said the minister of a group of Israeli journalists.

Katz therefore spoke of a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah destroyed in the Gaza War. There are supposed to find hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are currently living in tents in the area of ​​Al-Mawasi.

The new camp is to be created during the 60-day break, which is currently being negotiated indirectly in the Qatarian capital, which Israel and Hamas are currently negotiating. It should not be managed by the Israeli army, but by “international partners” that is not mentioned. The military would secure the environment. People who go to the “humanitarian city” would subject a security check to prevent Hamas squad from mixing among them. Anyone who is admitted there must no longer leave the facility.

“Voluntary” emigration should come

The warehouse will also serve to implement the emigration plan for the Palestinians. “Because that will come,” the media quoted, whose representatives were present at the briefing, the minister. In the past, Israeli government officials had announced several times to promote the “voluntary” emigration of a significant part of the population of Gaza.

Almost two million people live in the coastal area. Most of them lost their houses and apartments in the Gaza war.

However, not yet a single country in the world has agreed to want to record a significant number of Palestinians. There are also doubts about the voluntary character of the desired mass emigration. More radical forces in Israel, including some right-wing extremist ministers of the right-religious government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speak openly about the forced deportations of the Gaza population and the establishment of Jewish settlements in the coastal area.