President Donald Trump proposal that the United States “takes” the Gaza Strip And permanently reinstalling his Palestinian residents were quickly rejected and denounced Wednesday by American allies and opponents.
“Everyone loves it,” said Trump on Wednesday morning when he asked him about his proposal, but refused to comment more.
Trump’s suggestion came to a press conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who smiled several times while the president detailed a plan to build new colonies for Palestinian Apart from the Gaza Strip, and for the United States to take “property” in the regional redevelopment torn by the war in “The Riviera of the Middle East”.
“The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip, and we will also do a job with this,” said Trump. “We have it and will be responsible for the dismantling of all the dangerous unplodced bombs and other weapons on the site, at level the site and to get rid of destroyed buildings, to level it, to create an economic development which will provide an unlimited number of unlimited numbers of jobs. “”
The comments occurred in the midst of a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, during which the militant group made the hostages in exchange for the liberation of prisoners held by Israel.
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Egypt, Jordan and other American allies in the Middle East have already rejected the idea of moving more than 2 million Gaza Palestinians elsewhere in the region. After Trump’s remarks, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a statement highlighting the need to rebuild “without moving the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip”.
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Saudi Arabia, an important American ally, quickly weighed on Trump’s extended idea to take control of the Gaza Strip in a strongly formulated declaration, noting that its long call for an independent Palestinian State was a “firm position , farm and unshakable ”.
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also underlines what he had previously announced concerning his absolute rejection of the counterfeiting on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, whether through Israeli settlement policies, the annexation of the Palestinian land or The efforts to move the Palestinian people of their lands “,” the press release.
The Prime Ministers of Australia and Ireland, foreign ministries from China, New Zealand and Germany, and a spokesperson for Kremlin have all reiterated the support of a two-state solution.
“The position of Australia is the same as this morning, as it was last year, as 10 years ago,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Trump has already made waves – and upset longtime allies – suggesting the purchase of Greenland, the annexation of Canada and the possible takeover of the Panama Canal. It was not immediately clear if the idea of resuming the Gaza Strip was a well thought out plan or an opening gambit in the negotiations.
“The comments of last night were, of course, very worrying,” Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said. “I always adopt the approach with regard to the American administration of: judge them according to what they do and not what they say.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told the Anadolu state agency that Trump’s proposal on “Gaza evictions is not something that the region or we would accept”.
“Even thinking about it, in my opinion, is false and absurd,” said Fidan.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Nations to “protect the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights”, saying that what Trump wanted to do would be “a serious violation of international law”.
Hamas, which sparked the conflict with its attack on October 7, 2023, said that Israel said that Trump’s proposal was a “recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region”.
“Instead of holding the Zionist occupation responsible for the crime of genocide and travel, he is rewarded, not punished,” the militant group said in a statement.
In its attack on Israel, Hamas killed some 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and took around 250 hostages.
The air and terrestrial war that followed by Israel killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, more than half of them, according to local health authorities who do not say how many deaths were fighters. The conflict has left large parts of several cities in ruins and moved around 90% of the Gaza population of 2.3 million people.
In the United States, opposition politicians quickly rejected the idea of Trump, the Democratic Senator Chris Coons qualifying his comments “offensive and crazy and dangerous and stupid”.
The idea “risks the rest of the world by thinking that we are an unbalanced and unreliable partner because our president makes crazy proposals,” said Coons, noting the irony of the proposal came shortly after Trump has moved To dismantle the American agency for international development.
“Why would Devil would abandon decades of well-established humanitarian programs in the world, and now we are launching in one of the biggest humanitarian challenges in the world?” Said Coons.
Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib, member of the American Palestinian Congress of Michigan, accused Trump in a social media position of “openly calling for ethnic cleaning” with the idea of reinstalling the Gaza population.
Rising reported from Bangkok. The writers of the associated press Zeke Miller in Washington; Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Türkiye; Simina Mistreanu in Taipei, Taiwan; Josef Fderman in Jerusalem, Samy Magdy in Cairo and Charlotte McLay in Wellington, New Zealand, contributed to this report.