Israeli Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman renewed his call on Sunday to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the Egyptian Sinai, as part of US President Donald Trump's plans to displace them and seize the Strip.

This came in an interview with the Hebrew newspaper "The Jerusalem Post", with Lieberman, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009-2015), and was also appointed Minister of Defense (2016-2018).

Lieberman said, "Displacing most Palestinians from Gaza to the Egyptian Sinai is a practical and effective solution," he claimed.

He added: "Egypt should absorb most of the Palestinians in Gaza, and this will not require the migration of millions across great distances, as proposed by Trump."

Lieberman added: "The Gaza Strip suffers from a high population density, while Sinai has vast untapped lands."

He claimed that Palestinians in Gaza and Sinai "share language, culture and family relations, which makes the assimilation process natural."

He also claimed that "Egypt benefits economically from the current political situation, as it plays the role of mediator between Israel and Hamas, and also reaps profits from smuggling operations through the tunnels and the Rafah crossing," as he put it.

Lieberman called for a re-evaluation of relations between Israel and Egypt, stressing the need for "Cairo to assume responsibility for the Gaza Strip as was the case before 1967, within a mandate from the Arab League," he said.

This is not the first time that Lieberman has called for the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt. Last February, he called for “Egypt’s control over Gaza and Israel and Jordan sharing responsibility for the West Bank.”

He also supported Trump's plan to seize Gaza and displace Palestinians from it, considering that its implementation is possible "if Egypt opens the doors of Sinai to accommodate them."

Last February, Trump revealed, during a press conference with Netanyahu at the White House, his intention to seize the Gaza Strip and displace the Palestinians from it, which sparked widespread regional and international rejection.

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

With American support, between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, Israel committed genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 159,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.