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Trump outlined his plan for a US "takeover" of Gaza and the resettlement of more than two million Palestinians to other countries.
Israel has decided to create a government agency that will oversee the "voluntary departure" of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday that the agency is being established following the approval of Defense Minister Israel Katz's plan.
Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel's announcement of an agency aimed at displacing the Palestinian people.
Egypt and other Arab countries have not yet reacted to the announcement, but have repeatedly insisted on a "two-state solution" to the conflict and the necessity of creating an independent Palestinian state, as well as the reconstruction of Gaza with Palestinians remaining in the coastal territory.
The Israeli move comes after suggestions by United States President Donald Trump that Gaza residents should be relocated to other countries, which rights groups and critics around the world have said amounts to ethnic cleansing, the forcible removal of a population from its home.
The spokeswoman confirmed that an authority tasked with "preparing the voluntary departure of Gaza Strip residents to third countries in a safe and controlled manner" was being established.
This will bring immigration administration under the control of the Ministry of Defense, she said.
" People who wish to leave the Gaza Strip should be allowed to do so in accordance with Israeli and international law and in line with the vision of US President Donald Trump ," Netanyahu's spokeswoman said.
-The "Riviera" of the Middle East
Israeli nationalists have long called for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. They have pushed the idea harder amid the war with Hamas, while the Israeli government has been accused by civil society groups of obstructing humanitarian aid to the enclave in an effort to encourage people to leave.
Trump outlined his plan for a US “takeover” of Gaza and the resettlement of more than two million Palestinians to other countries — Egypt and Jordan — last month. He said he wanted to turn the war-torn Palestinian territory into a Middle Eastern “Riviera.”
The suggestion sparked widespread international outrage, prompting fierce opposition from the Palestinians, Arab negotiators and many other countries around the globe.
Netanyahu's spokeswoman did not specify which third countries might be willing to cooperate with Israel in implementing the plan.
Netanyahu has previously said he was "committed" to Trump's plan " to create another Gaza ," while promising that, after the war, "there will be neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority " governing the territory.
Katz had instructed the military in February to draw up plans to implement Trump's proposal for the resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza.
The Israeli peace movement Peace Now condemned the action, labeling it "an indelible stain on Israel" in a post on X in English.
"When life in a given place is made impossible by bombing and siege, there is nothing 'voluntary' about people leaving ," the organization wrote./ Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "AlJazeera"
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