President Donald Trump’s plan for the United States to take over the Gaza torn by the war and create a “Riviera of the Middle East” after the Palestinians have taken the US policy about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and triggered widespread criticism .
The shock change from Trump, a former New York real estate developer, was quickly convicted by international powers, with regional heavyweight -saudi arabia, which Trump hopes to establish connections to Israel and reject the plan directly.
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has confirmed the position of the kingdom in “clear and explicitly”, which under no circumstances does not allow interpretation, according to Riyadh.
The members of the UN Security Council Russia, China, France and Great Britain said that they continued to support the two-state solution, which has been forming Washington’s politics for decades.
In his first announcement of the Middle East, Trump said that he had imagined to build a resort in which international communities could live in harmony after over 15 months of Israeli bombing, which devastated the tiny coastal slave and more than 47,000 people of Palestinian heights have killed. Israel’s attack came after the Militants of the Hamas attacked attacks, in which, according to the Israeli government, around 1,200 people were killed on October 7, 2023, with about 240 hostages being taken.
“We will own it and be responsible for reducing all dangerous non -exploded bombs and other weapons on the spot, eliminating the website and getting rid of the destroyed buildings,” said Trump in the White House and read prepared comments.
An UN damage evaluation published in January showed that the extinguishing of more than 50 million tons of ruins would take 21 years alone in Gaza and could cost up to 1.2 billion US dollars.
Last year, Trump’s son-in-law and former adjutant, Jared Kushner, described Gaza as a “valuable” Waterfront property.
Trump did not provide any details for his plan, which was presented on Tuesday at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The United States, which would take direct participation in Gaza, would contradict many years of politics in Washington and for a large part of the international community that found that Gaza would be part of a future Palestinian state to which the occupied West Bank belongs.
“We don’t go anywhere”
Expulsion is a highly sensitive problem among Palestinians and Arab countries.
When the fights raged in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians feared that they would suffer from another “Nakba” or a disaster, and referred to the time when hundreds of thousands of their houses were expropriated by their houses at the birth of the state of Israel .
“Trump can go to hell with his ideas, money and convictions. We are not going anywhere. We are not some of his fortune on a chat app.
An official of the Palestinian militant group of Hamas, who ruled the Gaza Strip before fighting there in a brutal war against Israel, said Trump’s statement about the takeover of the enclave was “ridiculous and absurd”.
“All ideas of this kind are able to ignite the region,” Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters and said that Hamas was still the ceasefire with Israel and “ensured the success of the negotiations in the second phase”.
Mahmoud Abbas of Palestinian Authority said that the Palestinians would not give up their land, rights and sacred sites, including the Gaza Strip together with the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The plan would violate the plan, the countries say the countries say
Trump’s occasional proposal sent diplomatic shock waves in the Middle East and around the world.
“China has always believed that Palestinians who rule Palestine are the basic principle of the post-conflicts of government,” said Lin Jian, spokesman for the China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and added that Beijing supports a two-state solution in the region.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke with CBC News about some of the considerations in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire negotiations.
The spokesman for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, repeated the position of Russia that the only way to solve the conflict of the Middle East passed with Israel by creating a Palestinian state.
“This is the thesis that is anchored in the corresponding resolution of the UN Security Council. This is the thesis that the overwhelming majority of the countries involved in this problem is shared. We go away, we support it and believe that this The only possible option is, “he said.
In a statement, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris also emphasized the “clear contradiction to resolutions of the UN Security Council”.
Peskov added that Trump’s resettlement idea had been rejected by large Arab capitals.
It was a point that was also made by Christophe Lemoine, spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, who said in a statement that the forced shift of the Palestinians “would be an important destabilizing factor for our close partners Egypt and Jordan as well as for the entire region “.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday that his top diplomat, Badr Abdelatty, discussed with the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, how important it is to advance with recovery projects in Gaza without the Palestinians left the Gaza strip.
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“Ethnic cleaning by another name”
The comments also shook legislators in the US Congress.
The Senator of Maryland, Chris van Hollen, a democrat, described it as “ethnic cleansing by another name” and said that Trump “threw an already volatile region” in an interview with MSNBC.
The Democratic Senator of Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said that a US invasion in Gaza would lead to the murder of American troops, while the democratic house member Rashida Tlaib from Michigan, born Palestinian parents, was classified as a “fanatic bullshit”.
The reaction of republicans on the Capitol Hill was more subdued, and Senator Lindsey Graham, a bundle of Trump, said: “Most South Caroliner are probably not enthusiastic about sending Americans to take over Gaza” in relation to him represented state.
“I think that could be problematic, but I will remain open,” he added.
The Senator of North Carolina, Thom Tillis, told us reporters that “there are probably a few kinks in this Slinky, but I have to look at the statement.”
It is not clear whether Trump will continue with his controversial plan or simply takes an extreme position as a negotiating strategy.
Murphy also said he thinks it was a distraction of Trumps Ongoing, obvious attempts to redesign the US government Early in his term.
Trump said he was planning to visit Gaza, Israel and Saudi Arabia, but did not say when he wanted to go.
Netanyahu praised Trump for “thinking with fresh ideas beyond the box” and “willingness to puncture conventional thinking”.
