Palestine weekly: Israeli ministers push for depopulation of Gaza

Far-right Israeli ministers began more forcefully advocating the wholesale removal of Palestinians in Gaza last week, offering timelines and government mechanisms to conduct illegal forced expulsions while displacement, demolitions and killings continued across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference on Wednesday that removing Palestinians from Gaza is “the only solution”, saying Israel is prepared to do it “by sea, by air and by every way possible”, and that US President Donald Trump has merely “frozen” – not cancelled – his support for the idea.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israeli flags become the latest weapon of settlers in West Bank dominationlist 2 of 3Palestinian farmers battle settler sabotage to save Hebron crops, livestocklist 3 of 3Israel’s Katz threatens ‘full-scale war’ against PA after settler stabbedend of listThen, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir unveiled a seven-year plan, branded “Disengagement 710”, to remove Gaza’s roughly two million residents through what he called “voluntary emigration”.Ben-Gvir added that, if re-elected, he would establish a Migration Ministry to expel Palestinians.Th...