Israel's Intelligence Ministry outlined three alternatives in a paper aimed at changing the civilian situation in Gaza after Tel Aviv initiated its relentless bombardment of Palestine's enclave.
A mass displacement, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman Abu Rudeineh said, would be “tantamount to declaring a new war.” / Photo: AP
But its conclusions deepened long-standing Egyptian concerns that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt's problem, and revived for Palestinians memories of their greatest trauma — the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of people who fled or were forced from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel's creation in 1948.
The document proposes moving Gaza’s civilian population to tent cities in northern Sinai of Egypt, then building permanent cities and an undefined humanitarian corridor. Egypt has long concerned that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of Palestinians into its territory, as happened during the war surrounding Israel's independence.
An Israeli official familiar with the document said it isn't binding and that there was no substantive discussion of it with security officials.
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