UK opposes Gaza displacement plan, warns of measures on Israel if ceasefire not agreed
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the UK would oppose plans to forcibly displace Palestinians after Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said he wanted to move 600,000 Palestinians to a “camp in the ruins of the city of Rafah” in southern Gaza.
Lammy told a parliamentary committee of lawmakers the plan runs “contra to the proximity to a ceasefire that I thought we were heading towards”.
He said: “So I wonder if there’s some politicking going on for those within the government that, for some reason, stand opposed to this.”
When pressed on whether Britain would oppose any such plans, Lammy responded, “Yes”.
Moreover, Lammy warned of measures against Israel if a ceasefire was not reached.
Israel has ‘carte blanche’ to pursue concentration zone plan
Israel’s plan to relocate Palestinians into concentration zones comes as Netanyahu is in Washington, DC, but such matters do not interest Trump, Israeli analyst Gideon Levy says from Tel Aviv.
“I think Israel has a carte blanche to go for this plan, and my only hope is that it will not be achievable and implementable. But if it is, we will be facing another huge crime of war,” the Haaretz writer told Al Jazeera.
He said 21 months of “ugly war hardly bothered most Israelis” as many believe there are no innocent people in Gaza.
“That’s the mindset of Israel today. We might like it or not but can’t ignore it. The majority of Israelis will be either indifferent or very supportive [of the concentration plan]. That’s the zeitgeist.”
Levy said the Israeli state has already become a pariah but it does not seem to care about its status internationally.
