Palestine weekly: Israeli ministers push for depopulation of Gaza

Ethnic cleansing plans move from slogans to policy proposals, amid West Bank demolitions and mounting deaths in Gaza.

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (centre), who has proposed the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, waves as he visits the Mahaneh Yehudah Market in West Jerusalem, September 4, 2026 [File: Abir Sultan/EPA]

Far-right Israeli ministers began more forcefully advocating the wholesale removal of Palestinians in Gaza last week, offering timelines and government mechanisms to conduct illegal forced expulsions while displacement, demolitions and killings continued across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference on Wednesday that removing Palestinians from Gaza is “the only solution”, saying Israel is prepared to do it “by sea, by air and by every way possible”, and that US President Donald Trump has merely “frozen” – not cancelled – his support for the idea.

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Then, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir unveiled a seven-year plan, branded “Disengagement 710”, to remove Gaza’s roughly two million residents through what he called “voluntary emigration”.

Ben-Gvir added that, if re-elected, he would establish a Migration Ministry to expel Palestinians.

The US State Department said it “ does not support any plan or proposal for the forced displacement, expulsion, or mandatory transfer of the population of Gaza” – but stopped short of directly condemning Katz or Ben-Gvir.

Gaza: Rising death toll amid airstrikes

Gaza’s death toll has continued climbing through near-daily strikes. An Israeli special forces raid near Gaza City’s American hospital on Tuesday killed at least four Palestinians, including two children and a woman, ending with the capture of Moin al-Arabeed, described by Israel as the head of Hamas’s internal security. A drone strike killed a child in Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday, the same day an attack on a tent in Khan Younis killed one person.

On Thursday, two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old, were shot dead near Beit Lahia after Israel said they had crossed into an Israeli-controlled area , while a separate drone strike killed a man near a church compound in Gaza City’s Remal neighbourhood.

Strikes continued through the week’s end: On Sunday alone, Israel attacked near a school in Gaza City, wounding several, and a separate drone strike on a car near Gaza City’s Hamid intersection killed Youssef Akila and his young daughter, Wafaa.

Before dawn on Monday, at least five more Palestinians in Gaza were killed including three-year-old Saadi Ghalia, who was killed when an artillery shell struck a school in Deir el-Balah sheltering displaced people.

By Monday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 73,658 people have been killed and 174,622 wounded since October 2023, after 160 additional deaths were certified and added to the casualty figures. Of those, more than 1,340 have been killed since the October 2025 Israeli-Hamas “ceasefire”.

The recovery of bodies has slowly continued alongside the killings.

Families in northern Gaza held funerals on Sunday for around 100 people, including 60 children, whose remains were pulled from the rubble of Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, many of them members of the extended Malaka family.

Gaza civil defence chief Raed al-Dahshan told Al Jazeera his teams could recover an estimated 8,000 more bodies still under the rubble within 90 days if given proper heavy equipment, but warned that without it, “this work will continue for years”. Between 10,000 and 14,000 people remain missing under Gaza’s rubble .

In the strip, humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate without sufficient aid getting in. The World Health Organization warned that water contamination in Gaza has nearly tripled since January. The Palestinian Water Authority reported all five of Gaza’s wastewater plants have shut down entirely, with roughly 55,000 cubic metres of untreated sewage discharged daily.

West Bank: Demolitions and villages under siege

Meanwhile, Israeli forces carried out demolitions this week in the West Bank. In the community of Khirbet al-Tabban in Masafer Yatta, those demolitions were absolute – demolishing all 12 homes left 70 people, including 30 children, homeless.

“It’s wiping the village off the face of the earth,” council head Nidal Younis said. Residents, he added, intend to rebuild.

Israeli forces also destroyed four water wells and several greenhouses in nearby Beit Ummar in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, causing an estimated $60,000 in losses, and demolished a home in Nahalin in Bethlehem governorate.

Around Jenin, the bulldozing of hundreds of farmers’ trees continued along the Arraba-Yabad and Jenin-Nablus roads, part of six military orders issued in August to clear vegetation from across four Jenin-area villages, according to to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

Relatives mourn two Palestinians killed in al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, following an Israeli settler attack and subsequent Israeli army raid, at the Ramallah government hospital in the occupied West Bank on September 2, 2026 [AFP]

In occupied East Jerusalem’s al-Bustan neighbourhood, community representative Fakhri Abu Diab said municipal bulldozers demolished a four-apartment building – the 60th demolition there since October 2023. On Monday morning another home was demolished in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina, according to Wafa, and authorities forced a Palestinian man in the city’s Jabal al-Mukaber area to demolish his home.

Despite all of the land and property destruction, last week’s most sustained violence centred on al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah. Settlers and soldiers raided the village on the evening of Wednesday after accusing residents of stealing livestock.

Snipers took rooftop positions and opened fire as residents tried to stop settlers stealing sheep, killing Khalil Abu Alia, 16, and Mohammad Nassan, 19.

The Israeli military told the Times of Israel that troops were “securing the retrieval of livestock belonging to Israeli civilians” when a “violent riot” broke out and soldiers “fired at key instigators”. Eyewitnesses said Nasan was shot in the back.

In the days after, mourners were beaten and pepper-sprayed and their vehicle stolen, with an ambulance also attacked.

Wafa also reported late on Sunday that Israeli settlers killed Omar Tubasi, 20, and injured three people when they raided and opened fire on the village of Hajja, east of Qalqilya governorate in the occupied West Bank.

Elsewhere, settlers stormed Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills on Friday, injuring a child. Soldiers who arrived declared the area a closed military zone that was enforced for Palestinians, not the settlers who remained.

In Turmus Ayya north of Ramallah, a settler wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of the outlawed Kach movement was filmed atop a Palestinian home declaring “this land is Jewish” after US Ambassador Mike Huckabee visited the town and called settler violence “a form of terrorism” .

In Qusra, south of Nablus, a month-long siege of three homes continued, with the army initially blocking roughly 100 peace activists from delivering food and medicine. Settlers also stole water tanks and livestock in the Jordan Valley and sabotaged water lines serving a Bedouin encampment near Tayasir in the northern West Bank, according to reports and photos from local Palestinian activists.

In East Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli police shot and killed Ibrahim al-Hendi, 33, from Beit Hanina, near Damascus Gate on Friday , claiming he had tried to stab an officer.

在西岸发生拆迁事件、加沙地带死亡人数不断攀升之际，种族清洗计划从口号转变为政策提案。

2026年9月4日，极右翼以色列国家安全部长伊塔马尔·本-格维尔（中）在访问西耶路撒冷马哈内耶胡达市场时挥手致意。他曾提议将巴勒斯坦人驱逐出加沙。[图片：Abir Sultan/EPA]

上周，以色列极右翼部长们开始更加有力地鼓吹全面驱逐加沙的巴勒斯坦人，并提出了实施非法强制驱逐的时间表和政府机制，与此同时，流离失所、拆迁和杀戮在加沙和被占领的西岸地区继续发生。

以色列国防部长以色列·卡茨周三在一次会议上表示，将巴勒斯坦人从加沙地带驱逐出去是“唯一的解决办法”，并称以色列准备“通过海路、空路以及一切可能的方式”来实现这一目标，而美国总统唐纳德·特朗普只是“冻结”了——而不是取消了——他对这一想法的支持。

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以色列卡茨威胁要对巴勒斯坦权力机构发动“全面战争”，此前一名定居者被刺伤（列表3/3）。

随后，国家安全部长伊塔马尔·本-格维尔公布了一项名为“脱离接触 710”的七年计划，旨在通过他所谓的“自愿移民”将加沙大约 200 万居民迁走。

本·格维尔补充说，如果再次当选，他将设立移民部，驱逐巴勒斯坦人。

美国国务院表示，“不支持任何强迫、驱逐或强制转移加沙人口的计划或提议”，但并未直接谴责卡茨或本-格维尔。

加沙：空袭导致死亡人数上升

加沙地带的死亡人数持续攀升，几乎每天都有空袭发生。周二，以色列特种部队在加沙城一家美国医院附近发动突袭，造成至少四名巴勒斯坦人死亡，其中包括两名儿童和一名妇女。行动最后抓获了被以色列称为哈马斯内部安全负责人的莫因·阿拉比德。周三，一架无人机袭击导致贾巴利亚难民营一名儿童丧生。同一天，汗尤尼斯一处帐篷遭到袭击，造成一人死亡。

周四，两名巴勒斯坦人（其中一名13岁）在贝特拉希亚附近被枪杀，以色列方面称他们越境进入了以色列控制区；与此同时，另一起无人机袭击导致加沙城雷马尔区一处教堂附近一名男子丧生。

袭击一直持续到周末：仅在周日，以色列就袭击了加沙城一所学校附近，造成多人受伤；另一次无人机袭击了加沙城哈米德路口附近的一辆汽车，造成优素福·阿基拉和他的小女儿瓦法死亡。

周一黎明前，加沙地带至少又有五名巴勒斯坦人丧生，其中包括三岁的萨阿迪·加利亚，他被一枚炮弹击中代尔巴拉赫一所收容流离失所者的学校而身亡。

截至周一，巴勒斯坦卫生部报告称，自2023年10月以来，已有73658人死亡，174622人受伤，其中新增160例死亡病例。在这些死亡病例中，超过1340人是在2025年10月以色列和哈马斯“停火”之后丧生的。

随着杀戮事件的持续发生，尸体的发现工作也在缓慢进行。

周日，加沙北部的一些家庭为大约 100 人举行了葬礼，其中包括 60 名儿童。他们的遗体是从加沙城 Zeitoun 街区的废墟中挖出来的，其中许多人是 Malaka 大家庭的成员。

加沙民防负责人拉伊德·达赫沙恩告诉半岛电视台，如果能获得合适的重型设备，他的团队可以在90天内从废墟下挖出约8000具遗体，但他警告说，如果没有这些设备，“这项工作将持续数年”。目前仍有1万至1.4万人下落不明。

在加沙地带，人道主义状况持续恶化，援助物资却严重滞后。世界卫生组织警告称，自今年1月以来，加沙的水污染程度几乎增加了两倍。巴勒斯坦水务局报告称，加沙的五座污水处理厂全部关闭，每天约有5.5万立方米未经处理的污水排放。

西岸：拆迁和围困中的村庄

与此同时，以色列军队本周在西岸地区进行了房屋拆迁。在马萨费尔亚塔的希尔贝特·塔班社区，拆迁行动彻底摧毁了所有房屋——12栋房屋全部被夷为平地，导致70人无家可归，其中包括30名儿童。

“这简直是在把这个村庄从地球上抹去，”议会主席尼达尔·尤尼斯说道。他还补充说，村民们打算重建家园。

以色列军队还在被占领的约旦河西岸希伯伦附近的贝特乌马尔摧毁了四口水井和几座温室，造成约 6 万美元的损失，并在伯利恒省纳哈林拆毁了一处房屋。

据巴勒斯坦瓦法通讯社报道，在杰宁附近，沿着阿拉巴-亚巴德和杰宁-纳布卢斯公路，数百棵农民的树木继续被推土机夷为平地。这是8月份发布的六项军事命令的一部分，旨在清除杰宁地区四个村庄的植被。

2026年9月2日，在被占领的约旦河西岸拉马拉政府医院，两名巴勒斯坦人在以色列定居者袭击和随后以色列军队突袭后在拉马拉以东的穆盖伊尔丧生，他们的亲属正在悼念他们。[法新社]

在被占领的东耶路撒冷布斯坦社区，社区代表法赫里·阿布·迪亚卜表示，市政推土机拆除了一栋四层公寓楼——这是自2023年10月以来该地区发生的第60起拆迁事件。据瓦法通讯社报道，周一上午，东耶路撒冷贝特哈尼纳社区的另一栋房屋也被拆除，当局还强迫该市贾巴尔穆卡贝尔地区的一名巴勒斯坦男子拆除了自己的房屋。

尽管土地和财产遭到严重破坏，但上周持续时间最长的暴力事件集中在拉马拉东北部的穆盖伊尔村。周三晚间，定居者和士兵袭击了该村，他们指控村民偷窃牲畜。

狙击手占据屋顶位置，向试图阻止定居者偷羊的居民开火，导致 16 岁的哈利勒·阿布·阿利亚和 19 岁的穆罕默德·纳桑丧生。

以色列军方告诉《以色列时报》，当时部队正在“确保以色列平民的牲畜被收回”，随后爆发了“暴力骚乱”，士兵们“向主要煽动者开火”。目击者称，纳桑背部中弹。

随后的几天里，哀悼者遭到殴打和辣椒喷雾袭击，他们的车辆被盗，一辆救护车也遭到袭击。

瓦法通讯社周日晚间还报道称，以色列定居者袭击并向被占领的约旦河西岸盖勒吉利亚省东部的哈贾村开火，造成20岁的奥马尔·图巴西死亡，另有三人受伤。

此外，周五，定居者冲进希伯伦山南部的乌姆·海尔村，造成一名儿童受伤。抵达的士兵宣布该地区为封闭军事区，该区域仅对巴勒斯坦人开放，不适用于留守的定居者。

在拉马拉以北的图尔穆斯阿亚，一名身穿印有被取缔的卡赫运动标志的 T 恤的定居者被拍到站在一户巴勒斯坦人家的屋顶上，宣称“这片土地是犹太人的”。此前，美国大使迈克·赫卡比访问了该镇，并将定居者的暴力行为称为“一种恐怖主义形式”。

在纳布卢斯以南的库斯拉，三处房屋被围困长达一个月之久，军方最初阻止了约100名和平活动人士运送食品和药品。据当地巴勒斯坦活动人士的报告和照片显示，定居者还在约旦河谷偷走了水箱和牲畜，并破坏了位于约旦河西岸北部塔亚西尔附近一个贝都因人营地的供水管道。

周五，以色列警方在东耶路撒冷老城大马士革门附近开枪打死了来自贝特哈尼纳的 33 岁男子易卜拉欣·亨迪，并声称他曾试图刺伤一名警官。