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Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir unveiled a $20 billion plan aimed at encouraging what he calls 'voluntary emigration' from Gaza over seven years, a proposal critics describe as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing. Ben Gvir has tied the plan's advancement to coalition demands ahead of Israel's upcoming elections. Detailing the plan further, Ben Gvir said it aims to displace roughly 250,000 Palestinians from Gaza in its first year, followed by approximately 2 million residents — out of the strip's 1.86 million-person population figure he cited — over the following six years, framing it as a 'realistic' policy he hopes to implement under the next government. He said the plan would include an 'absorption package' to assist Palestinians resettling in other countries, a proposal condemned by rights groups as tantamount to forced displacement.