News - Middle East: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu considers using a floating pier on the Gaza coast being constructed by the United States to push the Palestinians out of their homeland, a report says.

US President Joe Biden said earlier this month that the US military will construct a port off Gaza to get more humanitarian aid into the besieged territory by sea.
The Pentagon is sill developing the temporary port off Gaza’s coast.
According to officials, the port will increase the amount of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians by “hundreds of additional truckloads” per day.
But Netanyahu told a private meeting of the parliament, known as the Knesset, that the port could facilitate the removal of Palestinians from Gaza, Israel’s Kan News reported.
He said there was “no obstacle” to the Palestinians leaving Gaza apart from the unwillingness of other countries to accept them, the report said.
US Army ships have sailed from Virginia with equipment to build the pier, the Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Major General Pat Ryder said on March 12.
Netanyahu’s flagrant remarks have sparked serious reactions from the Palestinians.
Mustafa Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative, said in a message on X that Netanyahu “never gave up his dream of a complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.”