🔶U.S. Ambassador in Israel: There is no plan to force Palestinians to leave Gaza

Maike Hackby, the U.S. ambassador in Israel, in response to a proposed plan by two Israeli ministers to “carry out a mass departure of Palestinians from Gaza,” said that “there is no plan” to force Palestinians to leave Gaza.

Hackby told reporters: “I can say decisively that there is no plan by Israel to relocate people from Gaza against their will.”

He, by stating that “if people want to leave Gaza themselves, they should have the right to do so,” added: “Nobody says that forced relocation is going to take place. Israelis don’t want such a thing, and Americans certainly also oppose this issue. I don’t know anyone who supports such an action.”

This comes while Yisrael Katz, Israel’s defense minister, recently claimed: “Ultimately, there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration.”