From Gaza to Trump
CrossFireArabia- February 5, 2025
This is what one boy told Donald Trump told when he heard the US President wanted to displace Gazans wholesale.
Russia Rejects Trump Plan For Gaza
- CrossFireArabia
- February 5, 2025
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.”
China Scoffs at Trump’s Gaza ‘Take Over’ Plan
- CrossFireArabia
- February 5, 2025
China on Wednesday rebuffed US President Donald Trump’s plans to over “take over” Gaza, saying it opposes forced displacement of Palestinians to neighboring countries, state media reported.
Beijing “has always believed that ‘the Palestinians governing Palestine’ is the fundamental principle for postwar governance in Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters.
“We oppose the forced displacement and relocation of the population in Gaza,” Lin stressed, rejecting Trump’s controversial plans to take over the Palestinian besieged enclave.
The statement from Beijing came after Trump announced a plan for the US to “take over” the Gaza Strip and “develop it after relocating Palestinians to neighboring countries.”
Trump made the remarks in a joint news conference in Washington with visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” he said. “We’re going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it’ll be something that the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”
Trump gave no details on how the US would carry out the resettlement plan.
China’s Foreign Ministry, in contrast, said it hopes “all relevant parties will take the ceasefire in Gaza and post-war governance as an opportunity to push the Palestinian issue back onto the correct track of political resolution based on the ‘two-state solution,’ in order to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East,” according to Anadolu.
Trump Wants The US to “Take Over” Gaza!
- CrossFireArabia
- February 5, 2025
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will visit Israel, Gaza, Saudi Arabia and other places in the Middle East.
“I love Israel. I will visit there, and I’ll visit Gaza, and I’ll visit Saudi Arabia, and I’ll visit other places all over the Middle East,” he said during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
“The Middle East is an incredible place, so vibrant. It’s just one of the really beautiful places and with great people. And I think a lot of bad leadership has taken place in the Middle East that’s allowed this to happen. It’s just terrible,” he said.
“And that includes on the American side, by the way. We should have never gotten in there a long time ago, spent trillions of dollars and created so much death,” he added.
Trump’s remarks came as he hosted Netanyahu at the White House as the first foreign leader since his inauguration.
Netanyahu’s visit came amid a fragile ceasefire in Gaza that took hold on Jan. 19, halting Israel’s war, which has killed more than 47,500 people and left the enclave in ruins since an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s health authorities.
Nearly 1,200 people were killed in the cross-border attack led by Hamas, according to Israeli figures.
During the news conference, Trump made controversial remarks, saying the US will “take over” the Gaza Strip, which came shortly after he suggested a permanent resettlement of Palestinians outside Gaza according to Anadolu.
