According to the document, which is dated October 13, Israel will initially work to evacuate the Palestinians to tent cities before permanent cities are built, the Israeli newspaper reports Haaretz.
The document also includes a plan with a several kilometer wide “sterile buffer zone” inside Egypt to ensure that Palestinians cannot return and settle on Israel’s borders.
It also appears that the plan is expected to be met with international condemnation and that the authorities must present the relocation of Palestinians “as a way to help refugees flee from war”.
Egypt’s President: Does not allow settlement in Sinai
Israel’s military, the IDF, has on several occasions called on everyone living in the Gaza City area, around half of the Gaza Strip’s roughly two million inhabitants, to move south “for their own safety”.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has previously been clear that the country will not allow Palestinians, who are trying to escape Gaza, to settle in the Sinai Peninsula. That would mean that the settlement of Palestinians in Sinai turns the area into a new base for attacks against Israel, the president believes.
In a speech at a graduation ceremony at a military college in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the president said large flows of refugees from Gaza to Egypt would mean the dissolution of the Palestinian issue.
– It is important for its people to remain steadfast and exist on their land, he said.
Israeli intelligence confirms
According to Haaretz, the document contains two other alternative “solutions” that would not involve any displacement of Palestinians. One is to install an Israeli-controlled Palestinian government or to support an existing local regime.
But the solutions are dismissed as problematic for various reasons. Nor would it be enough to deter attacks against Israel, it is judged.
Israeli intelligence has confirmed that such a document has been drawn up but that the government is not expected to discuss adopting the proposal.