Israel moves to restrict Palestinian re-entry to Gaza, ‘encourage outflow’: Report
The Israel regime is reportedly seeking to limit the number of Palestinians re-entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in a bid to ensure that more people leave the coastal sliver than return.
Reuters carried the report on Friday, citing “three sources,” who also said it remained unclear “how Israel planned to enforce limits on the number of Palestinians entering Gaza from Egypt, or what ratio of exits to entries it aimed to achieve.”
According to the report, the regime additionally sought to establish a military checkpoint inside Gaza near its border, through which all Palestinians entering or leaving would be required to pass and be subjected to Israeli “security checks.“
“Israeli officials had insisted on setting up a military checkpoint in Gaza to screen Palestinians moving in and out,” the sources noted.
Plans for such strict checks have been under discussion since last year, according to multiple reports at the time.
The sources further said it was not clear how “individuals would be dealt with if they were blocked by Israel's military from passing through its checkpoint, particularly those entering from Egypt.”
The report came a day after US President Donald Trump officially launched his Gaza “Board of Peace” during a signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, attended by dozens of officials, who signed onto Washington’s “peace plan” for the war-ravaged territory.
Trump claims his plan is aimed at ending the regime’s war of genocide on Gaza, which began in October 2023.
A ceasefire deal was signed in early October between the regime and Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement towards implementation of the proposal.
The regime, though, has killed hundreds of Palestinians since the deal was concluded in, what observers call, a continued pattern of genocide, besides preventing sufficient entry of direly-needed humanitarian supplies into the territory.
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The regime has also recently barred the Palestinian technocratic committee, which is set to administer Gaza under the “Board of Peace,” from entering the coastal sliver.
Tel Aviv has been repeatedly delaying the crossing’s opening and continues to prevent adequate amounts of aid from entering Gaza.
In February this year, Trump unveiled a plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” and vowed to expel its population for the people's own “safety.” Numerous reports followed that Washington and Tel Aviv were in talks with African states to relocate Palestinians.
Among these countries was Sudan, which denied that any such development was taking place. Another was Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia that Tel Aviv has controversially recognized.
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