From Gaza to Trump
This is what one boy told Donald Trump told when he heard the US President wanted to displace Gazans wholesale.
This is what one boy told Donald Trump told when he heard the US President wanted to displace Gazans wholesale.
Russia on Wednesday slammed US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over the Gaza Strip as a manifestation of the Western “cancel culture.”
Speaking at a roundtable meeting on Ukraine with ambassadors in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov argued that this “culture of cancellation” has now become particularly evident in relation to the situation in the Middle East.
Highlighting the decisions of the UN Security Council, he said that these decisions, “which were recognized by everyone without exception a month and a half ago as a necessary basis for actions to create a Palestinian state, have simply been canceled,” according to Anadolu.
During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday, Trump said that the US “will take over” Gaza after relocating Palestinians elsewhere under a redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Egypt and Palestine held talks Wednesday to discuss recovery plans for the war-torn Gaza Strip without displacing Palestinians from the territory.
This came during a meeting held in Cairo between Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohamed Mustafa.
A statement released after the meeting reiterated Egypt’s support for the Palestinian government and its reform plans.
The statement underlined the importance of “empowering the Palestinian Authority politically and economically to assume its duties in the Gaza Strip as part of the occupied Palestinian territories.”
It highlighted the urgent need for advancing recovery projects in Gaza, ensuring aid delivery and clearing rubble without displacing Palestinians from the enclave.
Abdelatty also reviewed Egypt’s efforts to maintain the Gaza ceasefire deal, and implement all its terms.
Trump said during a news conference in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Tuesday that the US “will take over” Gaza after relocating Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
The US president first triggered uproar on Jan. 25 by suggesting that Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt, calling the enclave a “demolition site” after Israel’s war. His proposal, however, was vehemently rejected by Amman and Cairo.
A six-nation Arab ministerial meeting in Cairo on Saturday firmly rejected Palestinian displacement from Gaza and renewed calls for implementing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Trump’s proposal came after a ceasefire agreement took effect in Gaza on Jan. 19, suspending Israel’s genocidal war that has killed more than 47,500 Palestinians and left the enclave in ruins.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants in November last year for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump’s recent controversial proposal for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, saying: “Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.”
“This president can only spew this fanatical bulls because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing. It’s time for my two-state solution colleagues to speak up,” Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress, wrote on X.
Earlier, rebuffing Trump’s comments on Gaza during a Monday White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tlaib said the president is “openly calling for ethnic cleansing while sitting next to a genocidal war criminal.”
“He’s perfectly fine cutting off working Americans from federal funds while the funding to the Israeli government continues flowing,” she added, referring to Trump’s federal funding freeze ordered last week.
During his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt should take in Palestinians from Gaza, calling the enclave a demolition site and uninhabitable.
He later doubled down on his proposal at a press conference with Netanyahu, saying the US “will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” according to Anadolu.
“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, (and) create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area,” Trump said as reported in the Turkish Anadolu news website.
Jordan, Egypt, and other regional players strongly rejected the proposal, while both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas condemned Trump’s remarks and rejected any attempt to displace Palestinians from their homeland.
Hamas called Trump’s proposal “a recipe for generating chaos and tension,” adding: “Our people in the Gaza Strip will not allow these plans to pass.”
Forcibly displacing a population without justification under international law constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.