CBS News reported that the United States and Israel are considering expelling Palestinians from Gaza to Syria to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of the Strip.

The report added that the United States and Israel are also interested in exploring the possibility of sending Palestinians to Somalia and Sudan, two war-torn countries. Somalia has denied receiving any contact from US and Israeli officials, while Sudan has not commented.

A source told CBS that the Trump administration has attempted to reach out to the Syrian Interim Government, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an al-Qaeda affiliate, regarding the idea of resettling Palestinians in Syria through a third party.

A source "in the region" told CBS that contact had been made with the government led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, although a Syrian government official denied any knowledge of the proposal from the United States and Israel.

President Trump has consistently called for the permanent evacuation of Palestinians from Gaza as part of his plan for a US "takeover" of the territory. Trump's calls have emboldened members of the Israeli government who have been calling for ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the establishment of Jewish settlements. Idit Silman, Israel's Minister of Environmental Protection, said last week that God had sent the Trump administration to facilitate these goals. "God sent us the American administration, and it tells us clearly—the time has come to inherit the land," she said.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right finance minister, recently declared that a plan for ethnic cleansing in Gaza is "taking shape." He said the Israeli government will establish a new "immigration administration" to facilitate the ethnic cleansing. "If we remove 5,000 people a day, it will take a year," he said. "This is a huge logistical operation—not just the bus that takes them. We need to know who is going, to which country, what their ages are, their vocational training, and it's a huge operation, and we are preparing for it."

The Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Tuesday that the Palestinian death toll has risen to 412, "most of them children and women," and more than 500 have been wounded in a series of violent airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since last night.

The Israeli occupation army claimed on Tuesday that it continues to bomb targets belonging to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Islamic Jihad movement across the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military claimed that the targets it bombed over the past few hours included militant cells, weapons depots, and other military infrastructure used by Hamas "to plan and carry out terrorist activities and posed a threat to IDF forces and citizens of the State of Israel."