JUBA: South Sudan on Wednesday said that Israel’s deputy foreign minister had visited for talks, after reports of plans to relocate Palestinians from the war-torn Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he would permit Palestinians from Gaza to emigrate voluntarily and that his government was talking to a number of potential host countries.

One report says Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians in South Sudan, moving them from one war-ravaged land to another.

If implemented, plans would amount to transferring people from one war-ravaged land at risk of famine to another – raising human rights concerns