Israel seized the Gaza Strip in 1967 and maintained a navy presence within the territory till 2005 when it pulled out settlers and its troops.
It subsequently imposed a crippling blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory and positioned it underneath siege after the battle started in October 2023.
Israel and armed teams in Gaza have fought a number of wars lately, however the newest – sparked by the unprecedented 2023 Hamas assault on Israel – has been the deadliest and most damaging.
Netanyahu mentioned Trump’s plan was a departure from the “standard, standard, standard – we depart, Gaza turns into once more occupied by these terrorists who use it as a base to assault Israel … It would not go wherever”.
“I believe we should always pursue it,” he added, cautioning that “the true subject” was discovering a rustic that will agree to soak up displaced Gazans.
The Israeli chief additionally mentioned that relocated Palestinians must “disavow terrorism” to be allowed to return to Gaza.
For Palestinians, any makes an attempt to pressure them out of Gaza would evoke darkish reminiscences of what the Arab world calls the “Nakba”, or disaster – the mass displacement of Palestinians throughout Israel’s creation in 1948.
“Everyone describes Gaza as the most important open-air jail on the planet,” Netanyahu mentioned.
“Get the inhabitants out, permit them to depart. Not forcible eviction, not ethnic cleaning – getting folks out of what all these nations and all these do-gooders say is an open-air jail. Why are you protecting them in jail?”
