The head of Mosad, of the Israeli espionage service, visited Washington this week as the Israel Asks Donald Trump’s government to help remove Palestinians from Gauzeas the US news site, Axios, reported today (18.07.2025), citing two well -informed sources.
The help that Israel is looking for from Washington is to persuade other countries to accept hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, according to two sources.
David Barneas, the head of Mosad, told White House envoy Steve Witkov that Israel is mainly in discussions with Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya.
This matters because the goal of the Israeli government to remove much of the gauze population He is very controversial. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government claims that such a “relocation” would be “voluntary”, American and Israeli legal experts call it “warfareยป.
At their meeting earlier this week, Barnea told Witkov that Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya have expressed the willingness to accept a large number of Palestinians From Gaza, the two sources say.
Barnea suggested that the US will offer motivation In these countries and will help Israel persuade them. Witkov was cautiousand it is not clear if the US will be actively involved in this issue, one source said.
The White House, the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel and the Ethiopian, Indonesian and Libyan Foreign Ministries they did not answer in requests for commentary before publication.
In February, the President Trump suggested that both of the two million Palestinians be removed from Gaza for the reconstruction of the enclave.
However the White House frozen this idea after the great important reactions Arab countries say US officials, and this idea has not led nowhere.
Israeli officials say the Trump government told them that if Netanyahu wants to follow this idea, Israel must find countries that want to accept Palestinians from Gaza.
Netanyahu commissioned Mosad to find the countries that could agree to receive a large number of displaced Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
Almost every Palestinian in Gaza has been displaced at least once during the waroften displaced many times. Most buildings have suffered serious damage or have been damaged.