Former Hamas insider and outspoken critic of the group, Mosab Hassan Yousef, has defended the controversial idea of relocating Gaza’s population, describing it not as “ethnic cleansing” but as a life-saving measure.
Writing on his verified X (formerly Twitter) account, Yousef argued that moving two million Gazans would be “triage” rather than expulsion, likening it to “pulling a firebomb out before it lights.”
Yousef, who is the son of a Hamas co-founder and has long condemned the organization’s tactics, wrote that Israel has been branded a “cleanser for seventy-seven years,” yet the number of Arab citizens inside Israel has tripled and the West Bank’s population continues to grow.
Gaza alone, he said, is “imploding” because it “harvests” people rather than housing them — “converts trauma into curriculum, despair into detonators.”
According to his post, the goal of relocating civilians would be to “separate wolves from sheep” and prevent “the next massive human sacrifice” before militant leaders “morph into suited ideologues who quote Camus while smuggling drones.” He characterized ordinary Gazans as victims of “a Palestinian cult that teaches resistance equals suicide” and called for dismantling what he termed an “altar” of violence.
Yousef acknowledged that international law would “howl” at such a plan, but claimed that the same system had “left babies in incubators” and “let rockets pass as protests.” Inaction, he warned, was deadlier than relocation, saying Gaza’s “only export is war” and its legacy “orphans who recite death poetry.”
“The arithmetic is merciless,” he concluded. “Let it stand, and the next attack won’t need tunnels — it’ll wear a Harvard hoodie. History will call this mercy, even if headlines won’t.” See, More, Here>>>>
His remarks have sparked intense debate online, with supporters and critics clashing over the moral and legal implications of his position.
