Pakistan was among the Muslim nations on Sunday that condemned Israeli ministers’ statements regarding the displacement of the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip, including proposals for plans and mechanisms aimed at forcibly removing them from their land.
Earlier this week, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Defence Minister Israel Katz had floated proposals for the mass removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, resurfacing an idea voiced repeatedly by right-wing politicians over the past three years as they seek to rally supporters ahead of an election.
Far-right security minister Ben-Gvir had laid out a seven-year plan for removing Gaza’s population through “voluntary emigration” and Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration”.
“We are fully prepared to move them out if it becomes possible by sea, by air, by every way possible,” he said during an online conference hosted by Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and the United Arab Emirates strongly condemned the remarks in a joint statement.
