Indonesia raps Israel's controversial plan for forced relocation of Gazans
Indonesia has called on the international community to take immediate action against Israel’s controversial plan for forced relocation of the population of the Gaza Strip, who have been under the regime's constant siege and bombardment for 92 days.
Israel’s authorities have repeatedly called for the Palestinians in the besieged territory to voluntarily leave their homeland and migrate to Western countries.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday that the plan proposed by the regime disregarded the rights of the Palestinians and was in violation of international law.
“(The) international community must prevent this agenda from becoming a reality,” the statement said.
The Israeli regime's far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said earlier this week that three months of the war on the populated Palestinian territory presented an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza", describing the plan as “a correct, just, moral and humane” solution.
Moreover, the regime's so-called Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Tel Aviv “will permanently control the territory of the Gaza Strip” and urged to move Gaza’s residents to “countries that will agree to take in the refugees.”
European countries have also condemned the plan for forced relocation of the population of the Palestinians, saying that the regime “has no such rights."
The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it is not up to Israel “to decide where Palestinians should live.”
"The future of the Gaza Strip and its inhabitants will lie in a unified Palestinian state living in peace and security alongside Israel," the statement added.
The UK government also "firmly rejects any suggestion of the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza.”
"We share the concerns of our allies and partners that Gazans should not be subject to forcible displacement or relocation from Gaza," said the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in a statement.
Meanwhile, the German Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Sebastian Fischer said the issue was discussed during the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Tokyo last November.
"The forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza and the reduction of the territory of the Gaza Strip should not be out of the question."
Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Brussels also joined the chorus, condemning the idea of the mass displacement of Palestinians, which has raised fears of yet another “Nakba” or “catastrophe” –- the occupying regime’s violent expulsion of about 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland when it proclaimed its illegal existence on May 15, 1948.
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