Palestinian president said he was strongly rejecting President Donald Trump’s proposal to now take over Gaza and permanently move 2.1 million Palestinians who live there.
“We will not allow our people’s rights … injuries,” emphasized Mahmoud Abbas, warning that Gaza “an integral part of the Palestine State” and forcibly displaced was a serious violation of international law.
Hamas, whose 15-month war with Israel caused a wide devastation, said Trump’s plan “would put oil on fire” in the region.
The Arab states also rejected the idea, with Saudi Arabia repeated so that it would not normalize ties with Israel without establishing the Palestinian state.
Neighboring Egypt, who rejected Trump’s proposal last month for Jordan to take over the Gaza residents, emphasized the need to renovate “without moving the Palestinians”.
It comes two weeks after the start of a fragile truck in Gaza, during which Hamas published some Israeli hostages that holds in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 was taken to hostage.
More than 47,540 people were killed and 111,600 injured in Gaza has since, according to the Hamas Territorial Ministry of Health.
Most of the Gaza population has also been displaced several times, almost 70% of the buildings are estimated to have been damaged or destroyed, and health care, water, sanitary and hygienic systems have collapsed, and lack of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.
The first main remarks of Prime Minister of Trump about politics in the Middle East have broken down for decades of American thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
On Tuesday night, he introduced them to the White House, along with the guest of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Now he’ll take over Gaza’s belt, and we’ll do his job with him too,” he said. “We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons in place, level the place and get rid of the destroyed buildings.”
Trump estimated that about 1.8 million Palestinians who live in Gaza will have to move to achieve their vision of the “Riviera Middle East” and said that he would be located in Jordan, Egypt and other countries.
Asked if the refugees would eventually allow them to come back, he said that the “world people” would live in Gaza before adding “Palestinians”.
Trump also pushed the previous complaints of Jordan and Egypt’s leaders to take over the refugees, insisting that he would eventually “open our hearts and give us the kind of country we need to do.”
Netanyahu said that Trump’s proposal could “change history” and that “it was worth paying attention to,” adding: “This is a kind of thinking that will transform the Middle East and bring peace.”
A unnamed high -ranking Israeli official was also quoted that Trump’s idea surpassed all his “expectations and dreams”.
However, Palestinian leadership condemned the plan in a statement published on Wednesday.
“These calls are a serious violation of international law,” said President Abbas, adding that “peace and stability will not be achieved in the region without establishing the Palestinian state.”
Abbas runs the Hamas rival Fatah and manages parts of the Israeli western coast.
He stated that Palestinians would not “give up their country, rights and holy places” and that “the gaza belt is an integral part of the country of Palestine, along with the western coast and eastern Jerusalem.”
Hamas – who has banned Israel, the United Kingdom and other countries as a terrorist organization – said Trump “targeting the United States to occupy Gaza’s belt.”
He warned that his proposal was “aggressive towards our people and the cause, he would not serve stability in the region and only oil would put oil.”
Palestinians in Gaza also said the plan completely out of the question.
“We endured almost a year and a half bombing and destruction, but we stay in Gaza,” one man told BBC Arabic.
“We would rather die in Gaza than left her. We’ll stay here until we renew him. Trump can do as he wants, but we firmly reject his decisions.”
According to international law, attempts to forcibly transfer the population are strictly forbidden.
The Palestinians are also afraid of repetition of “Nakba”, or “disasters”, when hundreds of thousands fled or were taken from their homes during the war that followed the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Many of these refugees ended up in Gaza, where they and their descendants make up three quarters of the population. Another 900,000 registered refugees live on the West Coast, which Israel occupied in the war in the Middle East in 1967, together with Gaza, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the UN.
Israel unilaterally withdrawn his troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, although he retained control of the common border, airspace and coast, giving him an effective control over the movement of people and goods. The UN still considers Gaza Israeli occupied territory because of the level of control that Israel has.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry announced that the kingdom “unequivocally rejected” Trump’s proposal for post -war gauze and reiterated that it would continue the efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state and “not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that.”
“The achievement of permanent and righteous peace is impossible without the Palestinian people to gain their legitimate rights,” he adds.
After talking to Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said he agreed with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustaf about “the importance of progressing with early recovery projects … without Palestinians to leave Gaza’s belt, especially with their dedication to their country and refusal to leave. “
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the relocation of the Palestinians from Gaza was “unacceptable”, adding: “It is absurd even to even consider.”
Western governments also expressed alarm about every forced displacement.
The French Foreign Ministry announced that “it would” represent a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of Palestinians, but also a great obstacle to a decision with two countries and a great destabilizing factor for our close partners Egypt and Jordan, as for the whole region. “
UK Foreign Minister David Lammy said: “We have always been clear in our belief that we have to look for two countries. We must see Palestine who can live and progress in their homeland, in Gaza, on the west coast.”
