Israel seized the Gaza Strip in 1967 and maintained a navy presence within the territory till 2005 when it pulled out settlers and its troops.
It subsequently imposed a crippling blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory and positioned it below siege after the warfare started in October 2023.
Israel and armed teams in Gaza have fought a number of wars lately, however the newest – sparked by the unprecedented 2023 Hamas assault on Israel – has been the deadliest and most harmful.
Netanyahu stated Trump’s plan was a departure from the “standard, standard, standard – we go away, Gaza turns into once more occupied by these terrorists who use it as a base to assault Israel … It would not go anyplace”.
“I feel we must always pursue it,” he added, cautioning that “the actual challenge” was discovering a rustic that will agree to soak up displaced Gazans.
The Israeli chief additionally stated that relocated Palestinians must “disavow terrorism” to be allowed to return to Gaza.
For Palestinians, any makes an attempt to power them out of Gaza would evoke darkish reminiscences of what the Arab world calls the “Nakba”, or disaster – the mass displacement of Palestinians throughout Israel’s creation in 1948.
“Everyone describes Gaza as the most important open-air jail on this planet,” Netanyahu stated.
“Get the inhabitants out, enable them to depart. Not forcible eviction, not ethnic cleaning – getting folks out of what all these nations and all these do-gooders say is an open-air jail. Why are you preserving them in jail?”
