He changed his mind after Donald Trump announced plans to resettle Gaza’s Palestinian residents and redevelop the enclave – plans which the US President said on Monday would not give them the right to return.

Concerns about forced relocations are not a recent development, but in fact began with the first order for Gazans in the north to evacuate to the southern strip just a week into the conflict, which began with a cross-border attack by Palestinian resistance group Hamas on 7 October.