Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir unveiled a sweeping new political platform Thursday calling for the "voluntary emigration" of nearly all of Gaza's roughly 2 million Palestinian residents over the next seven years — a proposal that instantly drew condemnation from rights groups and is expected to inflame an already volatile ceasefire.

The plan, branded "Disengagement 710," sets numeric targets: 250,000 people relocated out of Gaza within the first year, 1.11 million within three years, and 1.86 million — nearly the strip's entire population — within seven years, according to The Times of Israel.

Ben Gvir's platform calls for creating a dedicated government ministry to oversee the effort, along with agreements with destination countries — Turkey, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo were floated, alongside unnamed Arab states — and "integration packages" of travel assistance, temporary housing and up to 24 months of job training and support for those who leave, per The Jerusalem Post.

A $16 billion price tag, and no takers yet

The minister's office estimates the plan would cost $3.5 billion just to launch and more than $16 billion to fully carry out. As of Thursday, no country had publicly agreed to accept large numbers of displaced Gazans, and i24NEWS reports the proposal remains, for now, a campaign platform rather than a policy with any diplomatic groundwork in place.

The plan's name deliberately echoes both Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza and the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack that triggered the current war — a framing critics say signals the proposal is aimed as much at Ben Gvir's political base ahead of Israel's October 27 election as at any near-term policy outcome.

NEARLY THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF GAZA, GONE WITHIN SEVEN YEARS

Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party has made the platform a coalition demand, raising the stakes for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government as it navigates the aftermath of the war and pressure over the future governance of Gaza. Palestinian officials and international rights monitors have previously said mass population-transfer proposals from Gaza would amount to forced displacement under international law, regardless of the "voluntary" label attached to them.

The announcement, first reported widely by Israeli outlets and picked up internationally via wire services, comes as reconstruction and governance talks for postwar Gaza remain unresolved. It's unclear whether the plan will advance beyond a campaign proposal, but its scale and specificity — down to year-by-year relocation targets and a proposed budget — mark an escalation from vaguer resettlement rhetoric previously floated by Israel's far right.