Israel ready to remove Palestinians in Gaza once US approves, minister says

Israel has plans ready to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out where to take them, the defence minister has said.

“There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,” Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference hosted by Israeli news site Ynet and newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Wednesday.

The Israeli government “is organised and prepared to get them out – by sea, by air, by every way possible”, he said.

The US embassy...