Marco Rubio arrives in Israel on the first trip to the Middle East as an American Secretary
American Secretary of State Marco Rubio He arrived in Israel late on Saturday on his first trip to the Middle East, after President Donald Trump widely condemned the proposal to move Palestine in Gaza.
Trump first floated with the proposal that Egypt and Jordan They should take Palestine from Gaza on January 25, a proposal that strongly opposes.
In a shock announcement on February 4, after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Trump suggested resetting Gaza 2.2 million Palestinians and now take over the control and ownership of the demolished marine enclave, remodeling it in “The Middle East Riviera.”
On February 10, he said that Palestinians would not have the right to return to Gaza according to their plan, opposing their own officials who suggested that Gazani would be moved only temporarily.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar welcomes US Secretary of State Marc Rubio as he arrives at Israel, on the first part of his journey in the Middle East, in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 15, 2025. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool)
The comments from the US president echoed with long -standing Palestinian fears that they would permanently be taken from their homes and that some critics were labeled as a proposal for ethnic cleansing.
OUR Ally Israel The military attack on Gaza, now paused with a fragile truce, has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in the last 16 months, says the Gaza Health Ministry and has caused allegations of genocide and war crimes that Israel denies.
The attack was internally displaced almost the entire population of Gaza and caused a hunger crisis.
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The last bloodshed in the decades of the old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was launched on October 7, 2023, when the militants of Palestinian hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 and taking about 250 hostages, showing Israeli meats.
Rubio will discuss Gaza even after the Hamas attack on Israel during the trip and will continue Trump’s approach to attempting to disorders the status quo in the region, an official of State Department said last week.
