"Any such plan will be classified as a new occupation and met with appropriate resistance" and could derail ongoing ceasefire negotiations and trigger regional instability, a senior Hamas source threatened.

Minister Katz orders IDF to develop voluntary relocation strategy, says European critics "are legally obligated to allow Gazans to enter their territory."

If the plan is serious, it is likely to be further developed in the coming weeks, and the President and his team will have to answer several fundamental questions. From Arab states' opposition to the enormous cost for American taxpayers, the major challenges on the path to implementation.

Senior officials emphasized that no American military presence would be established in the territory and any population movements would be strictly temporary in nature.

After October 7 and what we've seen since, including the evident involvement of most residents in Hamas's terror and slaughter machine, one would have to be intellectually and morally bankrupt to think we could continue living alongside this ticking bomb.