Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir will unveil a plan on Thursday to “encourage voluntary emigration from Gaza”, making it a central plank of his election campaign and a key demand for joining any future coalition.

Ben Gvir, who leads the Jewish supremacist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, has called the ethnic cleansing plan “Disengagement 710”.

Israeli media reports that the far-right minister has spent months developing the proposal, which aims to force 250,000 Palestinians from Gaza during its first year.

Within three years, Israel would forcibly transfer 1.11 million Palestinians from their land. By the end of the seven-year programme, that figure would reach about 1.86 million.

Israel has already paved the way for such a plan by destroying or damaging more than 80 percent of Gaza’s homes, businesses, schools, universities and hospitals, while also withholding food and water