In the wake of Donald Trump’s polemical proposal to relocate the Gaza population formulated at the start of the year, the Hebrew state would study the possibility of a “voluntary departure” to the Eastern African country, according to the Associated Press agency.
Israel would currently conduct discussions to “relocate” Gaza Palestinians in East Africa, South Sudan, as part of a “Voluntary starting plan”according to information from the Associated Press agency. The Israeli Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Sharren Haskel has also started an official visit to the country this Wednesday, August 13, according to the Israeli channel I24News.
Asked about potential displacement of the enclave population during an interview with i24News the day before, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said that “It happens in all conflicts”. “In Syria, millions have gone (…), in Ukraine, millions left, in Afghanistan, millions have gone … And suddenly they (the international community) decide that in Gaza, civilians must be imprisoned? Give them the possibility of leaving, first of all, to leave the combat zones and generally to leave the territory, if they wish ”pleaded the Prime Minister. “We do not push them outside, we allow them to leave”he still justified.
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A project already mentioned by Trump
Regularly mentioned by the most radical fringe of the Israeli government and widely criticized by the international community, this hypothesis had been briefly suggested by Donald Trump last January. “”We are talking about a million and a half people, and we will simply clean up. Almost everything is demolished and people die there, so I prefer to get involved with certain Arab countries and build housing elsewhere, in a place where they could perhaps live in peace, to change ”he said on January 25, evoking potential rehousing in Egypt or Jordan. A “Excellent idea”, According to the Minister of Israeli Finance Bezalel Smotrich, rejected in block by the two countries.
International law, however, formally prohibits population movements. Article 8 of the Rome Statute, to which the Hebrew State did not leave but which was signed by Palestine in 2015, erected them to the rank of war crime. In July 2024, the UN estimated that the current population of the Gaza Strip was around 2.1 million people
