The Israeli Defence Minister has ordered the army to prepare for the "voluntary departure" of the inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave.
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00:00Donald Trump's statements on the Gaza Strip have not fallen on deaf ears.
00:10The Israeli defense minister has already given orders to the army to prepare for the so-called
00:15voluntary departure of the Gazans.
00:19American control of the Palestinian enclave, expulsion of the Gazans into neighboring countries
00:24and transformation of the Palestinian enclave into a Middle East Rivera.
00:28This is the plan of the U.S. president.
00:32Even though the White House has since nuanced Trump's statement, concerns remain.
00:39What Trump is proposing is clearly catastrophic for Gaza, but it would also be destabilizing
00:46for regional countries.
00:48It would be destabilizing for the broader region itself, and it would also have negative
00:55impacts on Europe itself.
00:58So let's, for a second, imagine one million Gazans being moved to Egypt, to a country
01:06with limited economic opportunities, a country of which they themselves, Gazans themselves
01:13have little connection with besides being neighbors.
01:18Do people really think that one million Gazan refugees will stay in Egypt?
01:23No.
01:24Thousands of them, tens of thousands will seek better economic prospects for the field,
01:30including in Europe.
01:32The U.S. president has repeatedly suggested that 1.8 million people from Gaza could be
01:37displaced to the neighboring countries.
01:40This proposal echoes the forced displacement that followed the creation of the state of
01:44Israel in 1948 and 1967, an option repeatedly rejected by Egypt and Jordan.
01:52This would be hugely controversial among the Arab people, who would see this as aiding
02:00and abetting the effective ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land.
02:07And in the case of Egypt, for instance, would be hugely controversial within the military
02:14and the security establishment, who have long seen this question of Gaza and the displacement
02:20of Gazans as something of a red line.
02:23The European Union has merely reiterated its support for the two-state solution and stated
02:28that Gaza is an integral part of a future Palestinian state.