Jewry benefits from “Gaza genocide” narrative; now has pretext to transfer mainly Muslim Gazans to West for further subversion
The full document from the Ministry of Intelligence: The occupation of Gaza and the comprehensive transfer to its residents
A document from the Ministry of Intelligence, the full content of which is being published here for the first time, recommends forcibly transferring the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for involving the international community in the process. The document also suggests promoting a dedicated campaign for Gaza residents that "will motivate them to agree to the plan."
"Massive migration of the population from combat zones is a natural and inevitable result." Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel, October 3, 2023 (Photo: Haim Goldberg / Flash 90)
An official document from the Ministry of Intelligence recommends that the security establishment carry out a full transfer of all residents of the Gaza Strip to northern Sinai, as the preferred option among three alternatives it offers regarding the future of the Palestinians in the Strip after the war.
The existence of the document does not necessarily indicate that its recommendations are being considered within the security establishment. Despite its name, the Intelligence Ministry is not responsible for any intelligence body but rather independently prepares studies and policy papers, which are distributed for the government and security bodies to review but are not binding on them. The ministry's annual budget is about 25 million shekels and its influence is considered relatively small.
The document recommends that Israel take action to "evacuate the Gazan population to Sinai" during the war: establish tent cities and new cities in northern Sinai, which will absorb the expelled population, and then "create a sterile zone of several kilometers inside Egypt and not allow the population to return to activity or residence near the Israeli border." At the same time, countries around the world, primarily the United States, should be enlisted to implement the move.
The ten-page document is dated October 13 and features the logo of the Intelligence Ministry, headed by Minister Gila Gamliel of the Likud. A source in the Intelligence Ministry confirmed to "Local Conversation" that it is an authentic document, distributed to the security establishment by the ministry's policy department, and "was not supposed to reach the media."
The document unequivocally and explicitly recommends carrying out a transfer for civilians from Gaza as the desired outcome of the war. Its existence was reported in "Calcalist" this week and is published here in full. The transfer plan is divided into several stages: In the first stage, action must be taken to ensure that the population in Gaza "evacuates south," while the air force attacks focus on the north of the Strip. In the second stage, a ground entry into Gaza will begin, leading to the occupation of the entire Strip, from north to south, and "the clearing of the underground bunkers from Hamas fighters."
In parallel with the occupation of the Strip, the citizens of Gaza will move to Egyptian territory, leave the Strip, and will not be allowed to return to it permanently. "It is important to keep the traffic routes towards the south usable, to allow the evacuation of the civilian population towards Rafah," the document states.
According to a source at the Intelligence Ministry, the ministry's staff stands behind these recommendations. The source emphasized that the ministry's studies "are not based on military intelligence" and serve only as a basis for discussions in the government.
The document proposes promoting a dedicated campaign for Gaza citizens that will "motivate them to agree to the plan," and make them give up their lands. "The messages should revolve around the loss of the land, meaning to make it clear that there is no more hope of returning to the territories that Israel will occupy in the near future, whether this is true or not. The image should be, 'Allah saw to it that you lost this land because of the Hamas leadership - all you have to do is move to another place with the help of your Muslim brothers,'" the document states.
In addition, it was written that the government must lead a public campaign that will promote the transfer plan in the Western world "in a manner that does not incite or blacken Israel," in which the expulsion of the population from Gaza will be presented as a necessary step from a humanitarian perspective and will gain international support because it will lead to "fewer casualties among the civilian population compared to the number of casualties expected if the population remains."
"Allah saw to it that you lost this land." Palestinians in Khan Yunis, October 14, 2023 (Photo: Abd Rahim Khatib / Flash 90)
The document also states that the US should be involved in the process so that it can put pressure on Egypt to absorb the residents of Gaza, and to involve other European countries, in particular Greece, Spain and Canada, to help absorb and settle the refugees who will be evacuated from Gaza. The Intelligence Ministry said that the document was not distributed through the ministry to US officials, but only to the Israeli government and security agencies.
Last week, the Misgav Institute, a right-wing research institute headed by Meir Ben-Shabbat, a Netanyahu confidant and former head of the National Security Council, published a position paper that similarly called for the forced transfer of the Gaza population to Sinai. The institute recently deleted the publication from Twitter after it drew strong international reactions.
Interestingly, the deleted study was written by Amir Weitman, a Likud activist and, according to testimony, also a close associate of Minister Gila Gamliel in the Intelligence Ministry. Weitman recently interviewed Likud MK Ariel Kellner, who told him that "the solution you propose, to transfer the population to Egypt, is a logical and necessary solution."
And this is not the only connection between the Likud, the Intelligence Ministry, and the right-wing research institute: About a month ago, the Intelligence Ministry pledged to transfer about a million shekels from its budget to the Misgav Institute, so that it could conduct research on Arab countries for it. If the Misgav Institute was involved in drafting the Intelligence Ministry's transfer document, its logo, at least, does not appear on the document.
Intelligence Ministry officials said that this was an independent study by the ministry's policy department, without cooperation with an external party, but confirmed that they had recently begun working with the Misgav Institute and emphasized that they work with various research institutes with diverse political agendas. The Misgav Institute has not yet responded.
And here's another connection: The Intelligence Ministry document was first leaked in a small internal WhatsApp group of right-wing activists who, along with Amir Weitman of the Likud, are lobbying for the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and transfer to the Palestinian citizens living there. According to one of these activists, the Intelligence Ministry document reached them through the mediation of a "Likud source" and its public distribution is related to an attempt to find out whether "the Israeli public is ready to accept ideas of transfer from Gaza."
The chances of implementing such a plan, which amounts to ethnic cleansing of Gaza, are in many ways zero. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently stated that he strongly opposes opening the Rafah crossing to absorb the civilian population from Gaza. He said that the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai would threaten Israeli peace with Egypt, and warned that it would lead to Israeli attacks on Egyptian territory. Al-Sisi himself proposed , however, several years ago to expand the territory of the Gaza Strip to Sinai and establish an independent Palestinian state there, a proposal that was rejected outright by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. A plan in a similar vein has been presented in the past by other Israeli officials, and it too did not mature into a real discussion.
The document states in relation to this difficulty that Egypt will have an "obligation under international law to allow the transfer of population," and that the United States can contribute to the process by exerting "pressure on Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates to contribute to the initiative either with resources or by absorbing displaced persons." The document proposes conducting a dedicated public campaign directed at the Arab world, to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia, "focusing on the message of assistance to the Palestinian brothers and their rehabilitation, even at the cost of a tone that rebukes or hurts Israel."
Finally, it was written that "massive migration" of the population from war zones is a "natural and inevitable consequence" that has also occurred in Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and that only the expulsion of the population will constitute "an appropriate response that will enable the creation of significant deterrence in the entire region."
"The most dangerous alternative": a Palestinian state
The document presents two other alternatives for the citizens of Gaza on the day after the war. The first is to import Palestinian Authority rule into Gaza, and the second is to establish another local Arab government as an alternative to Hamas. Both alternatives, it is argued, are not desirable from a strategic and security perspective for the State of Israel, and will not provide a sufficiently deterrent message, especially to Hezbollah in Lebanon, in response to Hamas' massacre in the Gaza Envelope.
The authors of the study claimed that introducing the Palestinian Authority into Gaza is the "most dangerous alternative" of the three, because it could "lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state."
"The division between the Palestinian population in Judea and Samaria and Gaza is one of the main obstacles today to the establishment of a Palestinian state. It is impossible that the result of this attack ( the Hamas massacre on October 7; 11) will be an unprecedented victory for the Palestinian national movement and paving the way for the establishment of a Palestinian state," the document states.
The document claims that a model of Israeli military rule and PA civilian rule, as exists in the West Bank, is likely to fail in Gaza. "There is no way to maintain an effective military occupation in Gaza based solely on a military presence and without settlement. Within a short time, there will be an internal Israeli and international demand for withdrawal."
The drafters of the document added that in such a situation, the State of Israel "would be considered a colonialist power with an occupying army... similar to the situation in Judea and Samaria today, only worse." They noted that the Palestinian Authority has low legitimacy among the Palestinian public, and that it has not been able to maintain power in Gaza in the past and there is no reason to think that it would be able to govern there today.
The last alternative, the formation of a local Arab leadership to replace Hamas, is undesirable, according to the document, because there are no local opposition movements to Hamas and the new leadership could be more extreme. "The likely scenario is not an ideological change of perception, but the establishment of new, possibly even more extreme, Islamist movements," it says in relation to this alternative.
Finally, it is argued that if the Gaza population remains in the Strip, there will be "many Arab deaths" during the expected occupation of Gaza, and this will damage Israel's international image even more than the expulsion of the population. For all these reasons, the Intelligence Ministry's recommendation is to promote the permanent transfer of all citizens from Gaza to Sinai.
The Ministry of Defense, the army spokeswoman, and the Misgav Institute did not