Policy paper: Options for a policy regarding Gaza's civilian population

"Policy paper: Options for a policy regarding Gaza's civilian population" (Hebrew: נייר מדיניות : חלופות לדירקטיבה מדינית לאוכלוסייה האזרחית בעזה, dated 13 October 2023) is a ten-page policy paper drafted by the Israeli Intelligence Ministry, that proposes forcibly transferring Gaza Strip's 2.3 million residents to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The paper, which was leaked to the media in late October 2023, considered and rejected two additional alternatives as insufficient to protect Israel's security interests: allowing the Palestinian Authority to rule Gaza, and allowing a new local government to develop there. The Israeli government downplayed the paper as a hypothetical "concept paper", and said there was "no substantive discussion" of the paper with security officials. The paper was condemned by Palestinians, and negatively impacted Israeli–Egyptian relations. "Option C," favored by the report, was widely described as amounting to ethnic cleansing.^[1][2]