Israeli lawmakers Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak called for Western countries to take refugees leaving Gaza.
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Danon and Ben-Barak wrote that Europe and the United States have a “long history of assisting refugees fleeing conflicts.”
“Global organizations with experience settling refugees should facilitate the relocation of Gaza residents who wish to move to countries willing to accept them,” the lawmakers wrote. “We simply need a handful of the world’s nations to share the responsibility of hosting Gazan residents. Even if countries took in as few as 10,000 people each, it would help alleviate the crisis.”
“Countries around the world should offer a haven for Gaza residents who seek relocation,” the politicians asserted. “Countries can accomplish this by creating well-structured and internationally coordinated relocation programs.”
“We simply need a handful of the world’s nations to share the responsibility of hosting Gazan residents. Even if countries took in as few as 10,000 people each, it would help alleviate the crisis.”
Gaza’s only bordering country other than Israel is Egypt, which previously stated that it would not take in refugees.
“We are rejecting the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and the explosion of Palestinians to Sinai,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said, according to The Hill.
American Faith reported that thousands gathered at the National Mall in support of Israel on Tuesday, raising support in solidarity for the fight against Hamas.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle joined the event, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (IA).
Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke to the crowd by video live from Jerusalem, claiming that after the “largest massacre since the Holocaust,” such devastation could “never again” occur.
“No one will break us,” Herzog said. “We will rise again, there is no greater and just cause than this.”
