Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the idea on Wednesday-also enthusiastically supported by US President Donald Trump-that Palestinians should simply leave the territory that houses more than two million people after nearly two years of conflict.
“They are not being expelled, they will be allowed to leave,” he told Israeli television channel I24News. “All those who care about Palestinians and say they want to help them should open their gates and stop giving us sermon.”
The main negotiator of the Militant Group Hamas talked to Egyptian mediators about a possible ceasefire in the Gaza War on Wednesday.
Arabs and many world leaders are horrified by the idea of moving the population of Gaza, which, according to Palestinians, would be like another Nakba (catastrophe) when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced out during the 1948 war.
A – which was taken in the early days of the war before withdrawal – probably is weeks away, the authorities say.
This means that a ceasefire is still possible, although negotiations are failing and the conflict is still underway.
residents said, with many houses destroyed in the neighborhoods of Zeiren and Shejaia at night.
Al-Ahli Hospital reported that 12 people died in an air strike to a house in Zeitoun.
Tanks also destroyed several houses in eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza, while in the center, Israeli shots killed nine people seeking help in two separate cases, Palestinian doctors said. The Israeli army did not comment.
Hamas chief negotiator meetings Khalil Al-Hayya with Egyptian authorities in Cairo on Wednesday would focus on interrupting the war, delivering help and “ending our people’s suffering in Gaza,” Hamas authority said in a statement.
Understand the war in the Gaza Strip
The war in the Gaza track began on October 7, 2023, after Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel.
Combatants of the Palestinian radical group killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages that day.
Then Israeli troops began a great offensive with bombing and land to try to recover hostages and end Hamas’s command.
The fighting resulted in the devastation of Palestinian territory and the displacement of about 1.9 million people, the equivalent of over 80% of the total population of the Gaza Strip, according to Unrwa (United Nations Palestinian refugees agency).
Since the beginning of the war, at least 61,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza. The ministry, controlled by Hamas, does not distinguish between civilian civilians and combatants in the count, but states that more than half of the dead are women and children. Israel states that at least 20,000 are combatants of the radical group.
Part of the hostages was recovered through two ceasefire agreements, while a minority was recovered through military actions.
Authorities believe that about 50 hostages are still in Gaza, and about 20 of them would be alive.
While war advances, the humanitarian situation gets worse every day in the Palestinian territory.
According to the UN, the number of people who have been killed has been trying to get food since May, when Israel changed the supply distribution system in the Gaza Strip.
With the widespread hunger for the lack of assistance in the Gaza Strip, reports of people dying for innion are daily.
Israel states that war may stop as well as Hamas surrenders, and the radical group demands improvement in the situation in Gaza so that the dialogue is resumed.
