Israel will expel Palestinians from Gaza ‘by any means’ with Trump’s green light: War minister

Speaking at a conference hosted by Zionist regime’s news site Ynet and newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Wednesday, Israel Katz claimed that the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza remains the “only solution”.

“In the end, there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration,” Katz said, noting that the Zionist regime “is organized and prepared to get them (Palestinians) out – by sea, by air, by any means.”

Citing unspecified “surveys,” he also alleged that 80 percent of Palestinians living in Gaza want to leave the besieged Palestinian territory.

He further said that Trump’s approval was crucial to convince other countries to accept Palestinian refugees.

“What’s delaying it (the plan) is that the accepting countries want US support,” he added. “Every country that is willing wants American backing.”

Meanwhile, Katz said that the plot to force Palestinians off their land still remains under discussion and was merely “frozen” by Trump due to pressure from Arab states.

“The plan hasn’t been canceled; it is being discussed all the time, even now, and I think there is no other solution for everyone’s good,” he pointed out.

Asked when he thinks the plan could be enacted, the Israeli minister said it would be “when it becomes clear that [the Palestinian resistance group] Hamas is not fulfilling its commitment[s]” under the US plan for Gaza.

“Then we will get a green light to advance militarily, territorially, and in other areas as well,” he went on to say.

At the start of his second presidential term, Trump called for forcibly removing all two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and placing the territory under US control, in what legal scholars denounced as a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Trump walked back the idea following strong pushback, including from Palestine and Egypt.

US Senator Chris Van Hollen said he had earlier warned that Israel is planning to ethnically cleanse Gaza after visiting the blockaded territory’s border with Egypt.

Now, Katz “confirmed that’s the goal,” he wrote in an X post. “We must end our complicity.”

The Zionist regime’s war minister is “admitting, completely and brazenly,” that Israel’s official policy “is ethnic cleansing in Gaza,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in the UK. “But somehow we are expected to take seriously those who say it is not.”

Zionist regime unleashed a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Two years later, Zionist regime accepted a Gaza ceasefire deal, following the failure to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing all captives.

Since then, however, the criminal regime has kept conducting attacks on Gaza in violation of the truce, martyring at least 73,470 people and injuring 174,540 others in the besieged territory over the past almost three years.