6:45 a.m.: Netanyahu wants to encourage voluntary migration of Palestinians out of Gaza
According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Benjamin Netanyahu said he was ready to encourage the voluntary migration of Palestinians out of Gaza. “Our problem is not whether to authorize an exit, but whether there will be countries that will be ready to absorb an exit,” he declared before the elected representatives of Likud, his party, according to the newspaper.
Hamas reacted by denouncing an “absurd project”. Palestinians “refuse to be deported and displaced. There can be no exile and there is no other choice than to stay on our land,” he said in a statement.