Overview

• Three anonymous sources told Reuters that Israeli and South Sudanese officials discussed relocating Palestinians from Gaza but emphasized that no agreement has been reached
• South Sudan’s foreign ministry issued an official statement rejecting all media reports of relocation talks as “baseless” and outside its policy
• Palestinian leaders, including a senior PLO official and Mahmoud Abbas’s office, have publicly rejected any plan to displace Gazans to South Sudan or any other country
• Reports attribute a proposed incentive package—encompassing Israeli infrastructure investment, U.S. sanctions relief and Emirati financial support—to discussions, though these elements remain unverified
• South Sudanese parliamentarians and human rights experts have voiced serious legal, logistical and ethical concerns given the country’s instability and limited capacity