Trump Administration works on the plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

The Trump government works on a plan to permanently move up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya.

The plan is severely superior to the administration that the administration discussed him with Libya's leadership, said two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former US official.

In return for the relocation of the Palestinians, the administration may release billions of dollars in Libya more than a decade ago, these three people said.

No final agreement was made, and Israel was informed about the discussions of the administration, according to three sources.

The Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council did not answer several inquiries about comments.

Basem Naim, a high-ranking officer of Hamas, said that Hamas, the American terrorist group, who had Gaza, knows no discussions about the move of Palestinians to Libya.

“Palestinians are very rooted in their homeland, very strongly committed to their home and they are ready to fight themselves to the end and to sacrifice everything to defend their country, their homeland, their families and the future of their children,” Naim said in response to questions from NBC news. “[Palestinians] are the only party that has the right to decide what to do for the Palestinians, including Gaza and Gazaner, what to do. “

Representatives of the Israeli government rejected a statement.

Libya was plagued by instability and warfare political factions in almost 14 years since a civil war broke out in the country and his long -time dictator Moammar Gaddafi was overthrown. Libya struggles to take care of its current population as two competing governments, one in the West, led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and one in the east, led by Khalifa Haftar, are actively and violent. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs currently advises the Americans not to travel to Libya, “due to crime, terrorism, non -exploded country mines, unrest, kidnapping and armed conflicts”.

Dbeibah's government could not be achieved for a comment. Haftar's Libyan National Army did not answer a request for comments.

How many Palestinians in Gaza would live voluntarily in Libya is an open question. An official of the idea management who discussed is to offer the Palestinians financial incentives such as free living and even a scholarship, said former US official.

The details about when or like a plan to move Palestinians to Libya could be implemented, cloudy and efforts to resign up to 1 million people would probably be exposed to significant obstacles.

Such an effort would probably be extremely expensive, and it is not clear how the Trump government would be paid for it. In the past, the government said that the Arab nations would build the reconstruction of Gaza after the end of the war, but they have Trump's idea of ​​permanently laying the Palestinians.

In the past few weeks, the Trump government has also seen Libya as a place where it could send some immigrants to deport it from the USA. However, plans to send a group of immigrants to Libya, this month was stalled by a federal judge.

The moving of up to 1 million Palestinians to Libya could put the fragile country far.

The recent public estimate of the CIA for the current population of Libya is around 7.36 million. With regard to the population, Libya, which absorbs 1 million more people, would correspond to the United States, which are about 46 million.

According to the former US official, the Palestinians in Libya are relocated to Libya. Administrative officials examine options for living space and every potential method to transport them from Gaza to Libya – through air, land and sea – according to one of the people with direct knowledge of the efforts.

Each of these methods would probably prove to be cumbersome and time -consuming and expensive.

It would take around 1,173 flights on the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, with maximum passenger capacity to transport 1 million people. Without airport in Gaza, the move from there would have to be transferred from there to flights to an airport in the region. If Israel does not want to allow the Palestinians to get through its territory, the closest airport in Cairo would be about 200 miles away.

Transport by land from Gaza via Egypt to Bengasi, Libya, the second largest city, which is further east as the capital of Tripoli, would drive about 1,300 miles. Automobiles usually hold fewer passengers than other means of transport. About 55 people can fit into an Intercity passenger bus.

Up to 2,000 people can fit the top-end versions of some of the ferries with which the United States transported civilians along the Mediterranean to escape the civil war in Libya. If these ships were used-and assumed that they do not refuel and the weather conditions do not refuel, the weather conditions of hundreds of trips would ultimately be more than 1 million people with the ascent of up to 1 million promotion from Gaza to one day from which 1 million people are available.

The spoken plan is part of President Donald Trump's vision for a post -war gaza, of which he said in February that the United States would try to “own” and rebuild, which he described as “Riviera of the Middle East”, said two current US officials, the former American official and the two people with direct knowledge of the efforts.

“We will take over this piece, develop it and create thousands and thousands of jobs, and to which the entire Middle East can be proud,” said Trump at the time.

In order to achieve his goal for the reconstruction of Gaza Strip, Trump said that the Palestinians would have to be resettled elsewhere elsewhere.

“You can't live in the Gaza at the moment, and I think we need a different place. I think it should be a place that will make people happy,” said Trump in February during a meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump outlined the goal of “finding a beautiful area to permanently reset people in beautiful houses, and where they are happy and cannot be shot, not killed, not to death like what happens in the Gaza”.

“I don't think people should return to Gaza,” he said.

Trump's idea that some of his top helpers, including Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, blinded criticism from the Arab allies of America and the US legislators of both parties.

“We will see what the Arab world says, but they know that this would be problematic on many, many levels,” said Trump Ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rs.c.

In March, the United States and Israel also rejected Egypt to rebuild Gaza strips without laying Palestinians.

The work of the government on a Libya plan is, when Trump's relationship with Netanyahu is tense, partly due to the decision of Israel to start a new military offensive in Gaza.

According to a high -ranking administrative officer, a former US official who is familiar with the discussions and one of the people with direct knowledge of the efforts, the Trump government has taken into account several locations for the relocation of the Palestinians living in Gaza.

According to one of the people with direct knowledge of the efforts and a former US official who is familiar with the discussions, Syria will also be discussed with his new leadership after the fall of Bashar Al Assad in December as a possible place to relocate the Palestinians in Gaza.

The Trump government has taken steps to restore diplomatic relationships with Syria. Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States would raise sanctions on Syria and briefly get to know the country's new leader on Wednesday, Ahmad al-Sharaa.