A secret document brought to light by Wikileaks presents a plan to push Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt gradually and then eventually relocate to Greece.
The suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continues unabated as, in addition to the relentless shelling that has killed thousands and injured even more, a shocking plan to relocate the residents is gradually being revealed.
Creation of a refugee camp in Sinai
The Israeli Intelligence Ministry advisory document leaked by the Israeli website Mekomit and then Wikileaks dated October 13 (2023) envisages a three-stage process that includes the establishment of a refugee camp in Sinai and the opening of a humanitarian corridor.
A week after the Hamas attack, Israel's Ministry of Intelligence issued a secret ten-page document outlining the expulsion of the Palestinian population of Gaza to northern Sinai, in Egypt:
1. Instruct Palestinian civilians to vacate north Gaza ahead of land operations;
2.… pic.twitter.com/3yjnhMpMn6— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 30, 2023
In this ten-page text, which is unknown if it has been officially adopted by Israel, a broader strategic plan is described to completely remove the Palestinians from their lands and force them to find a way to survive on Egyptian soil.
The four steps envisaged are:
- Instruct Palestinian civilians to vacate north Gaza ahead of land operations;
- Sequential land operations from north to south Gaza;
- Routes across Rafah to be left clear; 4. Establish tent cities in northern Sinai' and
- Construct cities to resettle Palestinians in Egypt
The rebuttal
It should be noted that shortly before the document was leaked, both US President Joe Biden and Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied any possibility of Palestinian refugees settling in Egypt.
The involvement of Greece
The document, among other things, is said to propose an organised campaign to the citizens of the region "to convince them to agree to the plan", with clear messages that "there is no longer any hope for them to return to the lands occupied by Israel (… ).
Listed countries as candidates to accept Palestinian refugees include Greece, Spain and Canada.
Strategic planning for the complete removal of the Palestinians
Israel's Intelligence Ministry confirmed the existence of the document, but Prime Minister Netanyahu's office downplayed its importance, citing a work case.
The document proposes that the Israeli government launch a global campaign that will promote the resettlement program to the Western world "in a way that does not provoke and tarnish Israel" and that the displacement of the Gazan population will be presented as "a humanitarianly necessary move" that "will result in fewer civilian deaths from conflict."
It is recalled that the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy recently published a position paper advocating the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”
The detailed plan, published originally in Hebrew, has been translated and shared by Mondoweiss. T
The sub-heading of the report makes the intention clear: "There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government."
This, it is claimed, aligns closely with the geopolitical interests of key players, including Israel, Egypt, the United States and Saudi Arabia.
The think tank explained that in 2017, Egypt was reported to have an astonishing 10 million available apartment units, with half already constructed and the other half in various stages of development. Notably, two of Cairo’s largest satellite cities, “October 6” and “Ramadan 10”, boasted an extensive number of completed yet unoccupied apartments, under both governmental and private ownership, as well as vacant lots primed for new construction.
The housing surplus is estimated to be sufficient to accommodate around six million people.
The institute has even conducted a cost analysis survey. It said that an average three-room apartment of 95 square metres, designed to house an average Gaza family of 5.14 individuals, could be acquired in either of the Egyptian cities for just $19,000.
Considering the estimated Gaza Strip population of 1.4-2.2m people, it’s estimated that the funds required to implement this ambitious plan would range from $5 billion to $8 billion.
It went on to state that the injection of such substantial funds into the Egyptian economy would provide a significant and immediate advantage to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.
When juxtaposed with the Israeli economy, the financial investment required, even at the high end of the estimate, represents a relatively modest sum.
The proposed solution, despite being in the order of billions of dollars (potentially reaching $20 to $30bn), offers an innovative, cost-effective and practical remedy for a long-standing issue, said the organisation.
According to Mondoweiss, the Misgav Institute is headed by former Netanyahu National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat, who remains influential in Israeli security circles.
This would not be the first time that Israelis have put ethnic cleansing on the table as a possible solution for the apartheid state’s “conflict” with the Palestinians. Israeli analysts and politicians have previously made suggestions for what’s referred to in Zionist terminology as the “transfer” of Palestinians.
During the 2014 war against Gaza, Moshe Feiglin of the Likud party, who was the deputy chair of the Knesset at the time, is said to have publicly presented a 7-point proposal for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. He reiterated this stance in 2018.
In a recent programme on Channel 14, Israelis called for a strategy reminiscent of the devastating World War Two firebombing of Dresden in February 1945, which claimed the lives of around 25,000 people.
Feiglin referred to the plan as a “Dresden” in Gaza, expressing the need for a “storm of fire” to engulf the entire region, with the goal of leaving “not one stone on another.” He emphasised the use of “total fire” and described it as “the end of ends.”
