Netanyahu Plans To Offer Gazans To Move Voluntary To Other Countries

Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo Doc Oana-Irna)

JAKARTA - Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged plans to implement "voluntary migration" to Palestinians in Gaza with the aim of other countries.

According to Israel's daily Hayom, Netanyahu made the statement at a special closed parliamentary session of the ruling Likud Party MPs.

"Our problem is that we are countries that want to accept (the Gazans), and we are trying to do it," he said.

During the trial Danny Danon of the Likud Party revealed that there were countries that actually raised the issue, including Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller and former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley who was following the process of capturing a candidate for president of the United States from the Republican Party.

Danon added Israel should form a committee to follow up on the issue to ensure everyone wishing to move to a third country can do so.

On several occasions, the US, Arab and European countries have voiced a firm rejection of any form of 'forced migration' against Palestinians in Gaza.

Palestinian authorities and Hamas have yet to respond to Israel's statement.

Israel has attacked the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attack on October 7, killing at least 20,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 54,536 people.

In contrast, about 1,200 Israelis are believed to have died in the Hamas attack.

Israel's intense attacks have led to destruction in Gaza where half of the housing in the coastal area was damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million people took refuge in the densely populated area as they lacked acute food and clean water.