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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in a meeting Thursday with senior defense officials and cabinet ministers, the office of one of the attendees told The Times of Israel.
A Defense Ministry plan discussed at the meeting would allow Gazans who choose to leave the Strip to do so by air and by sea starting in October, according to Hebrew media reports. The plan is set to be talked over with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his visit to Israel next week, Channel 12 reported.
Defense sources cited by Channel 13 said Israel was in talks with several African nations about receiving the displaced Gazans, but no agreement has been reached. Channel 12 reported last month that Israel was holding such talks with South Sudan, Libya, Uganda and Somaliland.
www.timesofisrael.com
Under Hamas-UNWRA rule, Palestinians were strongly discouraged from emigration despite the fact that polls before the war showed that fully half of them would if they could, and now with much of Gaza reduced to rubble by the war, it is likely much more than half will want to leave. Let's hope Israel/US can find places that will take them; it certainly won't be in Europe, which is struggling with its own Muslim problems, or in the Arab states for which suffering Palestinians are a symbol of continuing Muslim hostility towards Jews.
A Defense Ministry plan discussed at the meeting would allow Gazans who choose to leave the Strip to do so by air and by sea starting in October, according to Hebrew media reports. The plan is set to be talked over with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his visit to Israel next week, Channel 12 reported.
Defense sources cited by Channel 13 said Israel was in talks with several African nations about receiving the displaced Gazans, but no agreement has been reached. Channel 12 reported last month that Israel was holding such talks with South Sudan, Libya, Uganda and Somaliland.
Netanyahu discusses plan for ‘voluntary emigration’ of Gazans starting next month
Defense Ministry program said set to be brought up with Rubio during his visit to Israel next week; talks reportedly underway with several African nations about taking Gazans in
Under Hamas-UNWRA rule, Palestinians were strongly discouraged from emigration despite the fact that polls before the war showed that fully half of them would if they could, and now with much of Gaza reduced to rubble by the war, it is likely much more than half will want to leave. Let's hope Israel/US can find places that will take them; it certainly won't be in Europe, which is struggling with its own Muslim problems, or in the Arab states for which suffering Palestinians are a symbol of continuing Muslim hostility towards Jews.
