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Senior US government officials have retreated to some of the suggestions of President Donald Trump about the seizure of Gaza and the permanent resettlement of the Palestinians to neighboring countries, after global condemnation and the retreat of the Middle East states.
Trump said on Tuesday that the United States “will take over” and “special” Gaza after resettlement of the Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary redevelopment plan that claimed to turn the pocket into the “Riviera for the Middle East.”
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip and we will work with it as well. Trump at the White House said after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in developing contracts from American policy towards the Israeli -Palestinian conflict.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the idea “was not intended to be hostile,” describing it as “a display of rebuilding and responsible for rebuilding” and “a generous step.”
At the same time, Rubio followed Trump’s assertion earlier that the Palestinians in Gaza need to resettle it permanently in neighboring countries, saying that the idea is to leave the region for a “temporary” period of reconstruction and lifting the debris.
White House journalist Caroline Levitt later praised Trump’s proposal to Gaza as a historic and “outside the box”, but stressed that Washington will not finance the rebuilding of Gaza after more than 15 months of the Israeli war and that its participation “does not mean the strings on the ground” .
“It is a demolition site now. It is not a good place to live for any person.” Levitte added that Trump was “very clear” that he expected Egypt, Jordan and others “to accept Palestinian refugees temporarily, so that we can rebuild their home.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s proposal during an interview with Fox News on Wednesday night, describing it as “the first good idea I heard.”
He said: “It is a great idea, and I think it should be followed up, examined, followed up and really doing, because I think it will create a different future for everyone.”
But Netanyahu also suggested that he does not mean that the Palestinians are leaving the region forever. “They can leave, they can return after that, they can move and return, but you have to rebuild Gaza,” he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow the Gaza population to leave from the tape, the Israeli media reported.
“As an ethnic cleansing”
The United Nations warned that “any forced displacement of people will be an ethnic cleansing.”
“In essence, the exercise of inadable rights for the Palestinian people revolves around the right of the Palestinians to simply live as human beings in them. The private land.”
Palestinian officials and Arab leaders rejected Trump’s suggestion strongly, and they insisted that any forced displacement of the Palestinians would be unacceptable.
The President of Egypt, Abd al -Fahia al -Sisi and the Jordanian King Abdullah II, said that the plan “will be a serious violation of international law, a obstacle to a two -state solution and a great power to destabilize” their countries.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that the Kingdom has rejected any attempts to remove the Palestinians from their lands in a “clear and explicit”, according to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The ministry said in a lengthy statement on Wednesday: “The establishment of the Palestinian state is an indisputable position.”
Hamas described Trump’s idea as “a recipe for chaos” and said that the people of Gaza will never allow their displacement.
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, condemned “any projects” aimed at removing the people of Gaza, who remained “an integral part of the state of Palestine.”
The residents of Gaza also rejected the idea that they could be forced out of their land. Fathi Abu Al -Saeed, residing in Khan Yunis, 72, told the island that he would remain right in his house demolition.
“Do you see that pile of useless rubble?” He said, raised his reed to refer to a demolition house. “This is more expensive than the United States and everything in it.”
It has turned more than 15 months of the daily bombing of Gaza into ruins and killed more than 61,000 Palestinians. Trump’s Middle East envoy in the Middle East is largely attributed to reaching the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel on January 19. Negotiations are underway to extend them.
