Gaza – Israeli reports stated that there is a plan to build a floating island near Gaza on which about a million people will live in tents, after “Israel reached an understanding with the United States and Egypt about this plan.”
According to the Israeli news website now14, according to the plan, “some of Rafah’s residents will be evacuated and housed in tents, while others will be housed on a floating island that will be built west of Gaza.”
The website said, “The Egyptians want a guarantee that the operation in Rafah will not push Gazans to cross the border into Sinai.”
According to the site’s correspondent, Baruch Yadid, Israel obtained conditional approval for the operation, and that Washington wants an operation with time limits and a geographical scope that guarantees that the tragedy of displaced refugees in Rafah will not be repeated.
25,000 tents will be erected in each village and a total of one million people will reside there. The plan will enable the Israeli army to operate and prevent the migration of refugees to Egypt, which will, among other things, also be responsible for identifying the heads of local authorities and protecting the population.
According to the plan, the Egyptian authorities will undertake the process of setting up camps, erecting tents, and temporary sanitation centers, in addition to water supply centers, with American funding.
For his part, Representative Ahmed Al-Awadi, Chairman of the Defense and National Security Committee in the Egyptian House of Representatives, said that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi presented a proposal to transfer the Palestinians to the Negev Desert, away from creating artificial islands in the Red Sea or otherwise, and away from Sinai because the matter affects national security. Egyptian.
Major General Al-Awadi continued in statements to RT: “Transferring the Palestinians to the Negev Desert is a better proposal than transferring them to any other place,” explaining that the Palestinians who left in 1948 have not yet returned with the demands of the “right of return.”
He noted that any solutions proposed by Israel regarding the Palestinian issue are rejected by Egypt unless they are based on constants related to Egyptian and Arab national security and UN Security Council resolutions regarding Israel’s complete withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories, especially East Jerusalem and the return of refugees.
Egyptian MP Major General Ahmed Al-Awadi mocked the idea of an artificial island for the Palestinians to reside, adding that it is a strange thesis that treats the Palestinian people as if they were pariahs, which Egypt rejects, just as it rejects the idea of forced displacement and transit.
He added that the extremist government that now rules Israel wants to liquidate the Palestinian issue, something that will not happen and will not be accepted by Egypt, the Arab countries, or the civilized world.
He added that Egypt is ready for all scenarios, even though its main option is peace, but if Israel violates the peace treaty, then every event will be subject to discussion.
The Times of Israel newspaper quoted the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as categorically denying Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s offer to displace the residents of Gaza to an artificial island, and said that what the minister offered was to build a port for Gaza on an artificial island.
Media reports quoted the Israeli minister during his meeting with his counterparts in the European Union to discuss the next day after the war on Gaza, saying: “We presented the idea of an artificial island that would be an alternative homeland for the Palestinians.”
The minister said that the island would be 5 kilometers from the coast of Gaza, and a port and airport could be established on it to be a commercial center similar to Singapore, as he put it.
He added that Israel will control what enters and exits the island and connects it to the mainland via two bridges.
Source: Israeli media + RT
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2024-06-18 06:21:48