Israel Plans To Move Palestinians To Fragile South Sudan, Framing Forced Displacement As ‘Voluntary Migration’ | World News

Jerusalem: Israel opened a channel with South Sudan. Negotiations focus on sending Palestinians from Gaza to the East African nation. Associated Press confirmed the discussions through six people who knew the subject. The scope of the progress in the interviews is unknown.

If the plan moved forward, the Palestinians would leave a coastline in which the war shredded and would still arrive at another country marked with conflict and hunger. Human rights groups see great risks in this idea.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attributed to what he calls “voluntary migration .. He was interested in the major displacement of the inhabitants of Gaza.

In an interview with I24 TV, “I think, as I know, the right thing to be done according to war laws is to allow the separation of the population and then you enter with all your strength against the enemy staying there,” he said.

In this interview, he did not mention South Sudan.

Palestinians, global rights defenders and many governments reject the proposal of displacement. They define this as a direct way to permanently lift it from Gaza. They claim that they violate international law.

South Sudan sees possible benefits in negotiations. The country wants stronger connections with Israel. He also wants better access to Donald Trump in the United States. In February, US President swimed the idea of carrying the inhabitants of Gaza. The acceleration around the idea later disappeared.

Neither the Israeli Foreign Ministry nor the South Sudan Foreign Minister did not publish public comments. The US State Department refuses to approve or reject the details of special diplomacy.

Joe Szlavik, president of a US lobbying company of South Sudan, said he had received a briefing from South Sudanlı officials. He claims that an Israeli delegation plans to visit to evaluate possible camp sites for Palestinians, but no date has been determined. He says Israel will meet the cost of temporary facilities.

Edmund Yakani, the leader of the South Sudan civil society group, confirmed that the EP was talking to the authorities about it. Four officials with direct information confirmed the development while talking to the news agency.

The report referring to the two Egyptian officials says that Israel has been familiar with the search for a host country for months. They confirm that South Sudan is on the list. They also say that they are trying to convince South Sudan to reject the plan. Egypt strongly opposes the transport of Palestinians from Gaza.

Israel and the United States also talked about Sudan, Somali and Somaliland about similar regulations. The situation of these contacts remains uncertain.

According to Szlavik, the US knows the debate, but it is not part of them. South Sudan says he wants to remove sanctions on some elite and to remove travel ban. It emphasizes that the country has already accepted eight exiles from the USA.

South Sudan leaders see alliances as a way to financing and diplomatic protection.

Many Palestinian warfare in Gaza faces hunger and illness. Some may want to leave temporarily, but most permanent re -settlement. They see Gaza as the center of their homeland. They are afraid that they will never come back if they leave. The far -right Israel ministers force Gaza to annex and restore Jewish settlements.

Even those who are willing to leave can avoid South Sudan. The country is one of the most unstable in the world. Since the independence in 2011, it has experienced a civil war that killed about 400,000 people and caused famine.

Corruption continues to be high. The economy depends on foreign aid to feed 11 million residents. A peace agreement signed seven years ago did not end the tension. The main opposition leader is now under house arrest.

Yakani warns that Palestinians can face hostility in South Sudan. The country has long formed the war against Sudan, Christian for a long time, and reminded the southern to the Muslims and the Arab North to the North.