Today, Sunday, an Israeli minister and parliamentarian launched new calls to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, despite widespread Palestinian, regional and international criticism of these calls.

Today, the extremist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, spoke about the “day after” the war and the future of the residents of Gaza, who have been subjected to a devastating Israeli aggression for more than three months.

The extremist minister and head of the “Jewish Power” party told the official Kan channel: “I am in favor of encouraging voluntary immigration,” and added, speaking about the Palestinians in Gaza: “Take them and send them to the countries that want to receive them,” according to his claim.

The extremist minister continued his statements, saying: “I believe that hundreds of thousands of them will rise up and leave Gaza today.”

Displacement of the population of the Gaza Strip

Since last October 7, the Israeli army has launched a devastating aggression against Gaza, which as of yesterday, Saturday, left 22,722 martyrs, 58,166 wounded, massive infrastructure destruction, and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations.

For his part, Knesset Member Danny Danon said: “If there is a person who wants to leave Gaza, and there is a country that can receive him, this is correct from a humanitarian point of view,” he claimed.

Danon added in an interview with the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published on Sunday: “I was the first to raise the issue of the displacement of Gazans on the agenda.”

Danon, who previously served as Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations, continued: "Let us not mislead the public. Not all Gazans will leave, but if each country receives ten thousand Gazans, the number could reach hundreds of thousands."

About 2.4 million Palestinians live in Gaza, who, even before the current war, were suffering from catastrophic conditions, as a result of an ongoing Israeli siege of the Strip since 2006.

Arab and international condemnations

The statements of Ben Gvir and the extremist Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, regarding the necessity of displacing the Palestinians from Gaza, sparked angry Palestinian, regional, and international reactions.

Last week, Kan quoted Smotrich as saying, “More than 70% of the Israeli public supports a humanitarian solution to encourage voluntary immigration of Gaza Arabs and their absorption in other countries.”

Meanwhile, Ben Gvir said on the “X” platform: “We must strengthen the solution to encourage the migration of Gaza’s residents, as this is the correct, just, moral and humane solution.”

Western countries, including the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and Slovenia, in addition to the European Union, condemned these statements and officially announced their rejection of the displacement of Gaza’s residents as it violates international law.

Arab and Islamic countries, including Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, also condemned the Israeli calls to displace Gazans from their land, stressing that they represent contempt for international laws and agreements and aim to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

The Washington Post newspaper had indicated the day before yesterday, “The fate of the people of the Gaza Strip is still ambiguous, and returning to its north is fraught with dangers, while the voices of the extreme right in Israel are getting louder regarding their displacement.”

The newspaper pointed out that the controversial proposals presented by some Israeli officials to evacuate Gaza residents to camps in Egypt or other countries, sparked divisions with Washington, Europe, and the United Nations.

It added that these proposals could amount to ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Strip, which is the basis on which South Africa built its complaint to sue Israel in the International Court of Justice.