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President Donald Trump’s plans to take over Gaza have encountered anger and disgust in Palestine and the Arab world, and have caused a fear of re -conflict in the region.
Palestinian leaders said on Wednesday that they would defy the attempts to remove them from their country.
The senior leader of Islamist militant groups and ruling power treads Hamas, Abu Zuhri Sami, said the people Gauze “He wouldn’t let those plans pass,” and called Trump’s comments “a recipe for chaos and tension in the region.”
US President Tuesday night said We should “take over” A relaxed gauze strip, whose edges are in the ruins after more than a year of war with Israel and that 2.2 million Palestinian population should be relocated.
But the Arab states have long rejected any further expulsion of the Palestinians. The exit of Palestinians during the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, known to Palestinians as a nakba or disaster, created waves of displacement into neighboring countries and launched years of instability in the region.
Neighboring Jordan and Egypt, who have yet to respond to Trump’s comments, have previously rejected Trump’s proposal that they should accept displaced Palestinian refugees.
Trump’s intention to provide Gaza with US soldiers will also continue the memories of the catastrophic American invasion and occupation of Iraq, which further destabilized the region and saw the reputation of America in the Arab world.
Trump’s intervention also threatens to undermine its goal more to normalize the relations between Israel and Arab countries in the region.
Saudi Arabia, which is considered Trump’s closest ally in the oil bay, rejected the displacement of Palestinians on Wednesday and said that she would not maintain peace negotiations with Israel, unless an independent Palestinian state was created.
After successfully medalizing the normalization between Israel and the Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during his first term were expected to enter into an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
But the Israeli war against Gaza, which Hamas launched in October 2023, strengthened Riyadh’s attitude towards Israel and saw the dedication to an independent Palestinian state.
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman previously marked an angry attack by Israel – who killed about 47,000 people in Gaza – as “genocide”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom has said that Saudi Arabia “will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel” without an independent Palestinian state and emphasized that this position “cannot be negotiated and is not subject to compromises”.
