Ben-Gvir calls anew for displacing Palestinians from Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s radical far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his call for displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
“After the war, we must remain in the Gaza Strip, control it, and encourage the voluntary migration of hundreds of thousands of Gazans,” Ben-Gvir told Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
The far-right minister reiterated his opposition to withdrawing Israeli army forces from the northern Gaza Strip.
“Rockets are fired from areas from where the army withdraws,” he argued.
Several hard-line officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, including Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have called for encouraging what they call the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli calls have met opposition from several Western countries, including the US, France, Britain, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and Slovenia.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since October 7, as a result of which at least 24,448 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children.
According to the UN, around 85% of Gazans have been displaced by the Israeli onslaught, all of them food insecure. Hundreds of thousands of people are living without shelter.
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