With Trump backing away amid global refusal, plan to relocate Gazans looking like pipe dream |
The plan for the voluntary migration of Gaza Strip residents, which reverberated in Israel and globally for months earlier in the war, is effectively dead.
Israeli officials admit that the plan – which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enthusiastically endorsed as a “day after” strategy and even conditioned the end of the war on its implementation – is off the table. Senior figures involved in the matter now concede it is unfeasible.
The “migration administration,” which Defense Minister Israel Katz announced he was establishing in March, still exists on paper. However, it is clearly inactive and will inevitably shut down.
The plan failed primarily because US President Donald Trump gradually backed away from the idea he proposed in February, coupled with the global refusal to accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza.
Currently, Indonesia is the only country willing to accept refugees – possibly even the entire population of Gaza, according to some claims. A senior political source notes, however, that this depends on the compensation offered by the United States.
“The Indonesians are willing to make a deal at an astronomical price, and everything still hinges on President Trump, who once seriously entertained the idea of voluntary migration. Of course, it also depends on the Gazan population’s desire to move there,” the source has told Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s........