Israeli media suggest that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. envoy Jared Kushner — son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump — have reached a controversial arrangement concerning Palestinian resistance fighters in Rafah, southern Gaza.

According to Ynet, the deal reportedly involves a plan to expel around 200 Palestinian resistance fighters — described by Israeli officials as “Hamas operatives” — who are believed to be in tunnels beneath the besieged city. The proposal, advanced as part of what is being called Trump’s Gaza plan, would allow these fighters to be evacuated unharmed, provided another country agrees to host them.

So far, no country — including Turkey or Qatar, both of which have played mediating roles in past ceasefire negotiations — has agreed to accept the displaced fighters. Analysts say this reflects broad regional unease over a plan seen as an extension of Israel’s occupation policy and Washington’s efforts to reshape Gaza’s future under U.S.-Israeli terms.

Palestinian commentators have condemned the reported deal as a violation of sovereignty and an attempt to forcibly exile Palestinian resistance members, likening it to historical Zionist practices of displacement.

“The occupation seeks to erase the symbols of resistance and empty Gaza of its defenders,” one political analyst in Gaza told Al-Quds News. “This so-called evacuation is not a humanitarian act — it’s an engineered removal designed to weaken the will of our people.”

Observers say Kushner’s involvement signals a return to the Trump-era regional agenda, one that openly backed Israel’s military campaigns and the normalization of ties with Arab governments while sidelining Palestinian rights.

The plan’s reported failure to find any willing host country highlights the growing unease in the region about being complicit in a project that undermines Palestinian resistance and self-determination.

Despite months of Israeli bombardment, siege, and mass displacement, the Palestinian resistance — including fighters in Rafah — continues to assert its right to defend the people of Gaza from occupation forces.

“The occupiers believe they can break the resistance through political manipulation or exile,” said a source close to Palestinian factions. “But the spirit of resistance cannot be deported — it lives in every street of Gaza, every refugee camp, and every heart that refuses humiliation.”

The reported Netanyahu–Kushner arrangement is part of a broader strategy to dictate Gaza’s political future, including possible foreign administration or demilitarization, plans that have been strongly rejected by all Palestinian factions. (ILKHA)