“Conquest” of the Palestinian territory, “voluntary departure from the Gazaouis”: the new plan of Israel “sacrifices the hostages”, protest families

The Israeli Prime Minister also said during the meeting that he “continued to promote the Trump plan aimed at allowing the voluntary departure of the inhabitants of Gaza and that negotiations on this subject continued”, according to the same source.

In early February, US President Donald Trump launched the idea of ​​taking control of the Gaza Strip by the United States to rebuild it and make it “Riviera du Middle East”. For this, its inhabitants could, according to him, be moved to Egypt and Jordan, two neighboring countries which have rejected this option.

This project had sparked an uproar internationally.

“The territory rather than the hostages”

Following this announcement, the Family Forum, the largest association of hostages in hostages in Israel, accused, on Monday, the Israeli government of “sacrificing” hostages in Gaza.

This plan deserves the name of “Smotrich-Netanyahu plan” because it “sacrifices the hostages”, according to a statement from the association, in reference to the influence of the Minister of Far Right, Bezalel Smotrich, on the government of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. “This morning, the government admits that it chooses the territory rather than the hostages, unlike the wishes of more than 70 % of the population,” adds the text.

“Enough food in Gaza”?

Note that the Israeli politico-security firm also approved, on the night of Sunday to Monday, the possibility of a “humanitarian distribution if necessary, in order to prevent Hamas from taking control of supplies” in the Gaza Strip subject to an Israeli blockade, said an Israeli official source.

The members of the cabinet, however, estimated that there was “currently enough food in Gaza”.

International aid organizations say, on the contrary, lack everything in a Gaza band ravaged by more than a year and a half of war between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel.

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused Israel on Monday of using humanitarian aid as a means of “political blackmail” and of carrying responsibility for “aggravation of the humanitarian disaster” in the Gaza Strip.

The European Union said he was “concerned” by the new Israeli plan providing for the “conquest” of the Gaza Strip “which will lead to new victims and sufferings for the Palestinian population” and calls for “greater restraint”, a spokesman for his diplomatic service said on Monday.