Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying that he was “committed to US President Trump’s plan” to oust Gaza’s roughly 2 million residents and rebuild the Gaza Strip as a Riviera on the Mediterranean.
An Israeli official told the Times of Israel on Feb. 17 that Israel was “embracing with both hands” President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, adding that emigration from the Strip would (allegedly) be voluntary. “Our goal is to allow the creation of an infrastructure to enable Gazans to leave, and we assess that many will leave,” said the official. “We are trying in the near term to implement [Trump’s] vision and lay out technical, operational and practical details.”
