annexation

“Their central issue is there be no annexation and that the people of Gaza not be forcibly displaced,” al-Rantawi said.

Far-right Israelis see annexation as a way to stop this prospect.

The UK and Germany say they have warned Israel against annexation, while UN Secretary General António Guterres told Monday's conference it would be "morally, legally and politically intolerable".

Some Israeli ministers want the response to be an announcement of annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, forever ruling out a viable Palestinian state on the territory.

Israel remains implacably opposed and has threatened to retaliate through formal annexation of parts or all of the West Bank.