Palestine: Israel's treatment of Gaza as a property is an acknowledgment of the plan for extermination and displacement.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered on Thursday that Israel's treatment of the Gaza Strip as a commercial property is an official acknowledgment of plans for extermination and displacement.

This came in a statement in response to remarks made by the far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said that "the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip will turn into a profitable investment, after we have already carried out the demolition phase."

Smotrich added: "The plan is now on the table of President (Donald) Trump, and negotiations have begun with the Americans on how to share the proportions on the ground, because we have spent a lot of money on this war."

Last July, the government media office in Gaza announced that the extent of the destruction in the strip due to the Israeli extermination war exceeded 88 percent of its area of about 360 square kilometers.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry stated: "We view with great seriousness the inciting Israeli calls that treat the Gaza Strip as a property for sale, division, or privatization."

It considered this "an intensification of the commission of crimes of extermination and displacement, and an official acknowledgment of the occupation's intentions to completely destroy the Gaza Strip and turn it into uninhabitable land, which also clearly reveals plans to displace Palestinians from it."

Israel has long spoken of displacing Palestinians under the pretext of "voluntary migration," while making the Gaza Strip a repulsive environment in order to implement the displacement plan through its continued genocide and destruction of the means of life, tightening the siege and closing the crossings, and systematic starvation.

The Foreign Ministry added: "The Gaza Strip is an integral part of the land of the State of Palestine according to international law and international legitimacy resolutions, and we reject all those calls that treat the strip as merely vacant land as if it were up for sale or piracy in an auction of colonial racist governors."

It warned of "the dangers of international inaction and incapacity to stop these crimes and protect Palestinian civilians," calling for "urgent intervention to compel the Israeli government to stop its aggression against the Palestinian people and to save what remains of the credibility of the global system and those responsible for implementing its charters and laws."

The Foreign Ministry condemned "Israel's deepening of the crime of extermination and using starvation (in the Gaza Strip) as a weapon in the war."

Since March 2, Israel has closed all crossings leading to Gaza and prevented the entry of any food, medicine, or humanitarian aid, plunging the strip into famine despite the accumulation of relief trucks at its borders.

On August 22, the "Global Initiative for Integrated Food Security Phase Classification" (IPC) announced in a report the occurrence of famine in the city of Gaza (north), and predicted that it would "extend to the cities of Deir al-Balah (central) and Khan Younis (south) by the end of September."

Israel sometimes allows the entry of very limited amounts of aid that do not meet the minimum needs of the starving and do not end the famine, especially as most trucks are subjected to looting by gangs that the Gaza government says are protected by Israel.

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, resulting in 65,062 dead and 165,697 injured, most of whom are children and women, and famine that has claimed the lives of 432 Palestinians, including 146 children.