Overview
- Itamar Ben‑Gvir unveiled Disengagement 710 on Thursday, setting numeric targets to encourage roughly 250,000 departures in year one, about 1.11 million within three years and about 1.86 million over seven years.
- The proposal demands a new Ministry for Voluntary Emigration to negotiate with potential host countries, manage individual applications and oversee financial and logistical support for departures.
- The US State Department has publicly rejected any plan for forced displacement, and the US ambassador to Israel said there is no plan to expel Gazans against their will.
- Human‑rights groups and legal experts say large‑scale transfer from occupied territory would violate the Geneva Conventions and could amount to a war crime, and reporting shows no confirmed agreements with destination states.
- Presented as an election and coalition demand ahead of Israel’s October 27 vote, the plan raises immediate humanitarian, legal and diplomatic risks and could intensify ongoing international scrutiny and court cases.