Israeli ministers Shlomo Karhi and Bezalel Smotrich called on Tuesday to "immediately begin" implementing the plan to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Communications Minister Karhi posted a tweet on the X platform, calling for the urgent implementation of the plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, and to work to stop aid and cut off electricity and water.

On February 4, US President Donald Trump revealed, in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, his country’s intention to seize Gaza after displacing the Palestinians from it.

Since January 25, Trump has been promoting a plan to displace the Palestinians of Gaza to neighboring countries, such as Jordan and Egypt, which was rejected by both countries, and was joined by other Arab countries and regional and international organizations.

The Israeli minister claimed that "Hamas believes that it can gamble with the lives of our hostages, which is a grave mistake. We will not allow any more games."

Kari called for "the use of excessive and brutal force against Hamas elements until the detainees are returned," as he put it.

For his part, Finance Minister Smotrich expressed his support for Trump's statements regarding the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

"President Trump has determined that Israel can set a clear deadline for all detainees to return without exception by next Saturday, or the gates of hell will open," Smotrich said, calling for what he claimed was "the actual opening of the gates of hell" in the Gaza Strip.

The minister called for cutting off electricity and water, as well as halting humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, claiming that "Israel has full support from President Trump to do so."

Smotrich's remarks came in a speech he delivered on Tuesday during the 10th annual conference of the Haredi Institute for Strategy and Policy.

He added during the conference: "The way to preserve the detainees is to inform Hamas that if something happens to any of the kidnapped, we will declare on the same day Israeli sovereignty over 5 percent of the Gaza Strip, and so on, 5 percent after another... We have full support for that."

In this context, the former commander of the army's operations division, Major General Israel Ziv, said that the statements of Israeli officials were what prompted Hamas to postpone the release of the detainees.

"Our statements push Hamas to make such an announcement, and this is the irresponsibility I am talking about," Ziv added in statements to the local radio station 103 FM.

He pointed out that "the talks should have begun the day after the return of the detainees to discuss the next stages of the agreement with Hamas," and continued: "After the return of the detainees, we can do whatever we want," he said.

On Monday, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced the postponement of handing over the prisoners scheduled to be released on Saturday until Tel Aviv commits to implementing the agreement and compensating for the past weeks retroactively.

On January 19, a ceasefire agreement began in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel. It includes three stages, each lasting 42 days. During the first, negotiations will be held to start the second and third, with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar and the support of the United States.

Despite the ceasefire, the Israeli army fires almost daily through its drones at Palestinians in different areas of the Strip, killing and wounding people, including children and the elderly.

The head of the government media office in the Gaza Strip, Salama Maarouf, confirmed on Friday that despite the passage of 20 days since the agreement in the Gaza Strip, the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the Strip are still deteriorating dangerously due to the Israeli procrastination in implementing the agreement.