In the face of the Israeli army’s offensive in Rafah, on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is proposing the city’s population and the more than one million internally displaced people who fled there to escape the bombing and fighting to be transferred to tent camps in other areas on the border of the Palestinian enclave with Egyptaccording to yesterday’s publication of the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper’s sources in the Egyptian government explained that the Israeli proposal provides the creation of 15 campseach of whom it will consist of about 25,000 scenes, in the southwestern part of the small, besieged enclave. Israel even proposed that Egypt undertake the setting up of the camps and field hospitals.

In Rafa, a city of about 270,000 inhabitants before the war, they have piled some 1.4 million internally displaced —or in other words more than half the population of the Gaza Strip—, in makeshift camps.

According to the information of the Journal, the proposal was submitted in Cairo a few days ago.

Israel — whose plan to launch an attack on Rafah has come under growing international criticism — wants UN agencies to help speed up the evacuation of civilians.

But “we will not be part of the forced displacement” of Palestinians, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, countered in New York yesterday, adding that “as things stand, there is no location that is currently safe’ in the Palestinian enclave.