Source: Antiwar.com
by David Vine
“Amid some extremely cautious optimism for peace following a tenuous and incomplete ceasefire in Gaza, any hope for Gaza’s future depends significantly on a little-noticed point in President Donald Trump’s original 20-point peace plan. The plan’s twelfth point says, ‘No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return.’ The plan goes even further, saying, ‘We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza.’ Although there are reasons to doubt many elements of the Trump ‘peace plan’ – which neither side has agreed to in full – the assertion that no one will be forced to leave Gaza represents a major reversal: prior Israeli and U.S. government policy clearly aimed to force some or all Palestinians from the Strip.” (10/29/25)