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Most of Gaza’s population has also been displaced multiple times during the war<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Israel’s defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel Katz told journalists on Monday he wanted to establish a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah to initially house about 600,000 Palestinians – and eventually the whole 2.1 million population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the goal was to bring people inside after security screening to ensure they were not Hamas operatives, and that they would not be allowed to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If conditions allowed, he added, construction would begin during a 60-day ceasefire that Israel and Hamas are trying to negotiate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an “operational plan for a crime against humanity”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,” Michael Sfard told the Guardian newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN has also previously warned that the deportation or forcible transfer of an occupied territory’s civilian population is strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law and “tantamount to ethnic cleansing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on Monday, during a meeting at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about US President Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take over post-war Gaza and permanently resettle its population elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Netanyahu said: “I think President Trump has a brilliant vision. It’s called free choice. If people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’re working with the United States very closely about finding countries that will seek to realise what they always say – that they wanted to give the Palestinians a better future.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said: “We’ve had great co-operation from… surrounding countries, great cooperation from every single one of them. So, something good will happen.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, Arab states backed a $53bn (\u00a339bn) Egyptian alternative to Trump’s plan for Gaza’s reconstruction that would allow the Palestinians living there to stay in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also stressed their “categorical rejection of any form of displacement of the Palestinian people”, describing such an idea as “a gross violation of international law, a crime against humanity and ethnic cleansing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas also endorsed the Egyptian plan, but the US and Israel said it failed to address realities in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palestinians fear a repeat of the Nakba – the Arabic word for “catastrophe” – when hundreds of thousands fled or were driven from their homes before and during the war that followed the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those refugees ended up in Gaza, where they and their descendants make up three-quarters of the population. Another 900,000 registered refugees live in the occupied West Bank, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 57,500 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of Gaza’s population has also been displaced multiple times. More than 90% of homes are estimated to be damaged or destroyed; the healthcare, water, sanitation and hygiene systems have collapsed; and there are shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8rp31lk7mzo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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