The Israeli evacuation proposal includes establishing 15 campsites of around 25,000 tents each across the southwestern part of the Gaza Strip, Egyptian officials said. Egypt would be in charge of setting up the camps and field hospitals, the officials said.
The plan indicates that Israel is planning an invasion of Rafah, despite U.S. and Egyptian concerns. Cairo has said that it would suspend a 1979 peace treaty with Israel if Palestinians crossed the border from Rafah to flee an Israeli offensive, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment on the proposal. The Egyptian government couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Even as Biden has broadly backed Israel, his administration has become increasingly critical of Israel’s prosecution of the war and a potential operation in Rafah, and is instead pushing for a negotiated settlement to the four-month-long conflict. For now, U.S. officials said they don’t believe an invasion of Rafah is imminent.
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