Israeli far-right Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said Tuesday that Israel’s campaign to permanently expel Palestinians from Gaza will rely on force rather than so-called voluntary migration. His comments contradicted these claims made just two days earlier by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Why not give Gazans a choice? Everybody said this is the largest open-air prison in the world. … Not forcible eviction, not ethnic cleansing. In a war zone, people leave.”