A high-ranking Israeli official said that his government is not conducting a dialogue with any country about the displacement of the population of the Gaza Strip, describing the news in this regard as “baseless illusions.”
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted an unnamed Israeli official as saying that despite calls from ministers of the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu to encourage the migration of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, “Israel is not conducting any dialogue with any country on this issue, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” “.
Earlier, the Times of Israel website reported that Israel is holding secret talks with the Democratic Republic of the Congo regarding receiving refugees from the Gaza Strip.
The website reported that Israeli officials led informal talks with Congo and several other countries to complete the discussion about accepting the displaced from Gaza.
The American position
In a related context, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller called on Wednesday on Israel not to proceed with the policy of mass deportation of Palestinians from Gaza.
Miller’s statement came in the wake of previous statements by him, as well as by the US representative to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, in which they stressed the need for there not to be a mass deportation of Palestinians from Gaza, in response to public comments from the Israeli Ministers of Finance and National Security, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, who stressed In which the ultimate goal of the attack on Gaza is to expel as much of the Palestinian population as possible and build Israeli settlements.
During Israel’s war on Gaza, Smotrich made controversial statements that received disapproving and disapproving reactions, such as describing the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as Nazis, and calling for the establishment of buffer zones around settlements and roads and preventing Arabs from entering them. He also called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant to stop the season. Palestinian olive harvest in the occupied West Bank.
In recent weeks, Israeli calls to displace Palestinians have emerged, and Israeli Channel 12 reported that Tel Aviv intends to appoint Tony Blair as a mediator between it and Western countries to persuade them to receive Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip after the end of the war.
Yesterday, Wednesday, a local Palestinian official said that the number of displaced people who arrived in the city of Rafah, located in the far south of the Gaza Strip, had reached about one million since the beginning of the Israeli war on the seventh of last October.
The ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza for 90 days led to the death of more than 22 thousand Palestinians, most of them women and children, and the destruction of a large part of the Strip and caused a humanitarian catastrophe for its population of 2.3 million people.