The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katz, in his speech at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels also referred to the construction of an artificial island in the Mediterranean to be used as a port, but also to welcome Palestinians from Gaza. According to what AGI found from diplomatic sources, the proposal did not provoke any reaction from the European ministers at the table. “It is an old project and was presented more to show the intention to work on a solution for the Palestinians for some time now,” explained a diplomatic source.
As expected, the opposing side did not accept the proposal well. The Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Riyad Al-Malki, rejects the Israeli hypothesis of building an artificial island to accommodate the Palestinians in Gaza: “We do not need any island, neither natural nor artificial. We will stay in our country. The land of Palestine is ours, our priority and we will remain there. And we won’t let anyone think otherwise. Anyone who wants to go out and live on artificial or natural islands can go there. Who thinks that. We, the owners of this land, will stay there and resist staying there, for our rights, to have the Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
Source: IL Tempo

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