Israeli minister lambasts top lawyer for putting ‘a damper on deportation plan for Gaza’
Far-right Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has described Israel’s campaign to displace Palestinians from Gaza as a “deportation plan” in a post on X that criticised the country’s attorney general for advocating consultations on the legality of resettling Palestinians from the Strip.
In the post, Karhi said Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara “now wants to put a damper on the deportation plan for Gaza residents” and described her actions as “unimaginable”.
He added that the government should “not take orders” from Baharav-Miara and called for her dismissal.
The Times of Israel said that Karhi’s comments departed from those of senior Israeli figures, including Netanyahu and former Interior Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who have claimed their plans to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza would be “voluntary migration” rather than “deportation”.
Egypt, Spain reject US plan to displace Gazans
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rejected the controversial proposal by US President Donald Trump to displace Palestinians from war-torn Gaza.
The Arab League is scheduled to hold a meeting in Cairo on March 4 in response to Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and permanently move its Palestinian inhabitants elsewhere.
Speaking in Madrid ahead of the gathering, el-Sisi called for the “international community’s support and adoption of a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without displacing the Palestinian people”.
The Palestinian people “cling to their homeland, which they do not agree to relinquish”, Egypt’s leader said.
Sanchez, one of the staunchest defenders of the Palestinian cause within the European Union, agreed saying, “Gaza belongs to the Palestinians and is part of the future Palestinian state”.
Gaza reconstruction should lead to two-state solution: UAE president tells US’s Rubio
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that his country rejects the displacement of Palestinians from their land, according to state news agency WAM.
He also told the visiting US official that it was important to link Gaza’s reconstruction to a path that leads to a comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution, the report added.
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