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Photograph: Bilal Osama/APAImages/Shutterstock     (israel-seeking-trumps-support-for-plan-to-expel-palestinians-from-gaza.html#img-1)   View image in fullscreen       Palestinian children queue to have their faces painted before an outdoor cartoon screening at a displacement camp in Gaza City. Photograph: Bilal Osama/APAImages/Shutterstock       (https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel) Israel     Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’   Defence minister says he believes US backing could tip regional balance in favour of forced resettlement         (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/roth-andrew) Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent   Wed 2 Sep 2026 14.20 EDT  Last modified on Wed 2 Sep 2026 14.57 EDT   (mailto:?subject=Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’&body=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/israel-seeking-trumps-support-for-plan-to-expel-palestinians-from-gaza?CMP=share_btn_url) Share          (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=theguardian.com) Prefer the Guardian on Google          Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime. Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration” during a conference hosted by the Israeli news site Ynet and the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. He said the Israeli government was “organised and prepared to get them out by sea, by air, by every way possible”.  Trump discussed a US takeover of the (https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza) Gaza Strip in early 2025 that would have involved removing Palestinians from the territory, but has since pulled back from the idea. A 20-point peace plan the White House drew up last year did not call for Palestinians’ deportation, an act that would be widely seen as ethnic cleansing.       (Israel Katz)   (israel-seeking-trumps-support-for-plan-to-expel-palestinians-from-gaza.html#img-2)   View image in fullscreen       Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip was ‘being discussed all the time’. Photograph: Israeli Defence Ministry/Reuters  Katz, however, said on Wednesday that he believed US support could tip regional opinion in favour of the forced resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza. He said Trump’s approval was crucial to convince neighbouring countries to accept Palestinian refugees. “Every country that is willing to take them in wants American backing,” he said. “Trump has not cancelled this at the moment. He has frozen it.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request from the Guardian for comment on whether Trump was continuing to hold discussions on Israel’s proposals to forcibly depopulate the Gaza Strip. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/01/ed-miliband-promises-reset-of-uk-policy-toward-israel)  Ed Miliband promises ‘comprehensive reset’ of UK policy toward Israel     Read more        Katz pointed in particular to Egypt, which he said had lobbied Washington to oppose the forced removal of the Palestinian population. “It has not been cancelled,” he said. “It is being discussed all the time, including now, and I think there is no other solution in the end that is in everyone’s interest.” The remarks come during a competitive election season in Israel in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his rightwing allies have appealed to voters by calling for more aggressive measures against Palestinians. Some have been openly inflammatory and cruel. The far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted footage on X from a women’s prison where he said he was responsible for the dire conditions in the facility. 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