Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter, an Israeli security cabinet member, said on Saturday that the "Gaza Nakba" is underway and that Palestinians will be displaced.
On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza. According to Israeli officials, 1,200 people in Israel were killed in Hamas' attack, the Associated Press reported, while 11,000 Palestinians have been killed since Sunday, according to officials from the health ministry in Gaza, the AP reported. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is "at war" and has cut off supplies of food, fuel, electricity and medicine into Gaza.