{"id":253899,"date":"2025-07-10T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253899\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:17:09","slug":"israels-close-eu-allies-express-concern-over-plan-to-move-displaced-palestinians-into-sealed-off-zone-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253899\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s close EU allies express \u2018concern\u2019 over plan to move displaced Palestinians into sealed-off zone \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz briefed reporters earlier this week on his plan to place some 600,000 displaced Palestinians in Gaza inside a sealed-off zone, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/08\/middleeast\/israel-rafah-ruins-city-gaza-intl-latam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to media reports<\/a>. The defense minister said the entire population of more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza would eventually be moved into the zone, which the minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8rp31lk7mzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly referred to<\/a> as a \u201chumanitarian city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany and Austria are among Israel\u2019s closest allies in Europe, but it\u2019s unclear whether their criticisms will change thinking inside the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar defended the defense minister\u2019s idea, saying the zone would be built to protect civilians, and ruled out the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything, even this idea that was mentioned, it is in the context of international law and the evacuation of the population for its own safety from places that are actually battlefields,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sa\u2019ar also said that a deal to reach a ceasefire and free Israeli hostages in Gaza is \u201cachievable\u201d amid ongoing talks in Doha. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a temporary ceasefire will be achieved, we will negotiate on a permanent ceasefire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His Austrian and German counterparts also expressed optimism with regard to a possible ceasefire, with Meinl-Reisinger referring to the ongoing talks as \u201ca historic chance\u201d and a \u201cwindow of opportunity\u201d to achieve peace and stability for the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign ministers also said they had established a new format for meeting as a triad, dubbed the Vienna Trilogue, and would meet again soon in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz briefed reporters earlier this week on his plan to place some 600,000 displaced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[7907,473,2000,299,1824,837,809,5549,6647,13466,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-253899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-negotiations","15":"tag-safety","16":"tag-stability","17":"tag-terrorism","18":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114829842353678262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}