President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “takes over” of the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was quickly rejected and denounced on Wednesday by US allies and adversaries alike.
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said. “We will be its owners and those responsible for dismantling all the dangerous bombs without exploiting and other weapons in the place, leveling the site and getting rid of the destroyed buildings, leveling it, creating an economic development that will provide an unlimited number of jobs.”
The comments occurred in the middle of a high fragile on fire between Israel and Hamas, during which the militant group has been delivering hostages in exchange for the release of prisoners retained by Israel.
Egypt, Jordan and other American allies in the Middle East have already rejected the idea of relocating more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza in other areas of the region.
After Trump’s statements, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement in which the need to rebuild the destroyed “without taking out the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip” stressed.
Saudi Arabia, an important American ally, hastened to comment on Trump’s expanded idea to take care of the Gaza Strip in an energetic statement, noting that his long call to an independent Palestinian state was a “firm, constant and unwavering position ”
“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia also underlines what had previously announced its absolute rejection of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, either through Israeli settlement policies, the annexation of Palestinian lands or efforts to displace the Palestinian people of their land, ”says the statement.
Besides. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country has long supported a solution of two states in the Middle East and that nothing has changed.
“Australia’s position is the same as this morning, as last year, which 10 years ago,” he said.
Trump has already caused a stir – and has bothered long -standing allies – to suggest the purchase of Greenland, the annexation of Canada and the possible taking of control of the Panama Canal.
The New Zealand Foreign Ministry said in a statement that its “long -standing support for a solution of two states is registered” and added that, also, “it will not comment on each proposal that arises.”
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The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of China, Lin Jian, also underlined Beijing’s long data support to a solution of two states. Advertising “We oppose the forced relocation of people in Gaza and we hope that the relevant parts will take the fire and postwar governance in Gaza as an opportunity to make the Palestinian issue return to the right path,” he said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told the Anadolu state agency that Trump’s proposal on “Gaza deportations is not something that neither the region nor we would accept.”
“Even thinking about it, in my opinion, is incorrect and absurd,” said Fidan.
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked 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 said Trump’s proposal was a “recipe to create chaos and tension in the region.” “Instead of holding the Zionist occupation for the crime of genocide and displacement, it is rewarded, not punishing,” said the group in a statement.
In the United States, opposition politicians quickly rejected Trump’s idea, and Democratic Senator Chris Coans described his comments as “offensive, insane, dangerous and dumb.”
The idea “runs the risk that the rest of the world thinks that we are an unbalanced and unreliable partner because our president makes insane proposals,” Coons said, pointing out the irony that the proposal occurred shortly after Trump had decided to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development.
“Why would demons abandon decades of well -established humanitarian programs and now we would launch ourselves to one of the world’s greatest humanitarian challenges?” Coons said.
Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib accused Trump of “openly calling ethnic cleaning” with the idea of resetting the entire population of Gaza.
