AFPPresident Donald Trump has said that despite the global condemnation of the project last week, he is committed to buying and owning the Gaza Strip and transferring two million Palestinians living there.
He told reporters that they could allow Middle East countries to join parts of the region and make sure that Palestinian refugees “live beautifully”.
Both the Palestinian Authority and the armed group Hamas, whose 16 -month war with Israel, has spread widespread destruction in Gaza, reiterated that the Palestinian land is “not for sale”.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s “revolutionary and creative” proposal.
This comes three weeks in a critical ceasefire in Gaza, during which Hamas has issued some hostages to Israel in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an extraordinary cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and hosting 251 hostages.
More than 48,180 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the area.
Most of Gaza’s population has also been displaced multiple times, about 70 % of buildings are estimated or destroyed, health care, water, cleaning and hygiene systems have fallen, and here food, fuel, Lack of medicine and shelter.
Trump reiterated his commitment to take over Gaza after the war when he left for New Orleans on Air Force One on Sunday to watch the Super Bowl.
“I am determined to buy and own Gaza. As far as we are rebuilding it, we can give it to other Middle East states to make it part. Other people can do this. But we are determined to own it, to take it, and to ensure that Hamas will not back down, “he said. How will it own?
He added, “There is nothing to go back. This place is a place to demolish … the rest will be demolished.” “But we will make it a very good site for future development through someone.”
Trump said people all over the world will go to Gaza and promise “Palestinians to take care of”.
“We make sure they live with beauty and harmony and peace and have not been killed.”
He added, “They don’t want to go back to Gaza. They just go back because they have no alternative.”
The President once again expressed confidence that he could agree to help neighbor Egypt and Jordan, despite his previous public denial of his requests to take Gaza to refugees.
King Abdullah of Jordan is scheduled to meet with Trump in Washington on Tuesday, while the Israeli president said that Trump will also talk to Egyptian President Abdul Fateh Al -Sisi and Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the coming days.
ReutersThe Prime Minister of Israel praised Trump’s proposal at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday.
“For a whole year, we have been told that ‘after day’, Plo [Palestine Liberation Organisation]”The Palestinian Authority, needs to be in the belt,” Netanyahu said.
“President Trump came up with completely different vision, which is much better for the state of Israel, a revolutionary and creative vision, which we are discussing. He is very determined to follow it. All the possibilities also open. “
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry said: “Our people and our land rights are not for sale, exchange or bargaining.”
He added, “The Israeli government and Prime Minister Netanyahu are trying to hide the crimes of genocide, forced migration and affiliation they have done against our people.”
“For this purpose, they continue to promote slogans and positions that are different from political reality and beyond the needs of the political solution to the conflict.”
A Hamas -based political official – Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries is banned as a terrorist organization. He said that Trump’s comments were “ridiculous” and reflects “Palestine and deep ignorance in the region”.
“Gaza is not a sales and purchased property. It is an integral part of our occupied Palestinian soil.”
The UN Human Rights Office has warned that under international law, there is a strict prohibition from any forced transfer, or deportation of people belonging to the occupied territory.
Palestinians are also feared to repeat, or repeat the “destructive”, when hundreds of thousands of people escaped or were expelled from their homes after the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Many of these refugees ended in Gaza, where he and his descendants have three -quarters of the population. According to the UN, another 900,000 registered migrants live in the West Bank, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
German Chancellor Olaf Schools also strongly criticized Trump’s plan on Sunday, calling it a “scandal”.
“I say that the Egyptian government, with the Jordanian government and those who can trust human dignity,” he said during the electoral debate before the television. …
AFPPalestinian officials and Arab states also condemned the comments given in a TV interview in Netanyahu last week.
An Israeli journalist was discussing efforts to normalize diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia when he mistakenly said that there would be no progress without the formation of a “Saudi state”.
“A Palestinian state.” Netanyahu reformed him before, before: “Unless you want the Palestinian state to live in Saudi Arabia? They have a lot of territory.”
Egypt termed the advice “careless” and something that “directly violates Saudi sovereignty”, while Jordan said it was a “clear violation of international law”.
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that it praised “condemnation, disapproval and complete rejection by brotherly countries, which led to Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement about the Palestinian people being displaced from their land.” What is “
