Gaza today may be winter winds, leaving Palestinians to swallow. But it’s an unexpected explosion by US President Donald Trump who really shook them.
“I feel a lot of sadness and despair,” Haba Abu Dabaa (26) told CBC free video designer Mohamed El Saife. “You should know that we will not leave our country – just erase that idea from his mind.”
There were ruins behind her all the way to the horizon, the result of almost 16 months of war-elaborate air attacks and a house to a house with Hamas militants.
This “Trump said on Tuesday that he wanted to be embedded in the” Riviera of the Middle East “after empties it to Palestinians. He described a ribbon along the coast like a real estate developer he used to be. He wants to be now in a “long -term owner’s position” in Gaza.
The comments in Israel welcomed a pleasant surprise.
But for Palestine like 22-year-old Hanan al-Shennawi, it’s not just a piece of land. This is what remains after Nakba, or the “disaster” in Arabic, which forced the generation of its grandparents to leave the territory that became Israel in 1948.
“And in the end, they had nothing but to regret,” Al-Shennawi said. She refuses to let that happen again.
Palestinians reject Trump’s idea
The departure “erases the Palestinian cause,” said 30-year-old Taher al-Najjar.
Israel rejects the accusation that Palestinians have been forcibly evicted, but the Palestinian perspective has encouraged a deep desire to go back, strong enough to launch militant groups like Hamas to launch an attack on October 7, 2023. In Israel, in which about 1,200 Israelis was killed and saw some 250 took hostage. Israeli later war in Gaza killed over 47,000 Palestinians.
Hamas says Trump’s plan is a recipe for more violence.
Calling it “funny and absurd,” the official Hamas Abu Zuhri Sami said to Reuters “any ideas of this kind of capable of burning on the region.”
Also widespread condemnation from a larger region, with a straight rejection from Egypt and Jordan – two countries Trump said that the population of Gaza should be taken. Cairo said he would support the renewal, but without removing anyone.
Saudi Arabia He said that he would not normalize diplomatic and economic relations with Israel without the creation of the Palestinian state, which is contrary to Trump’s claim that the country does not set such a request. In Riyadh, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the throne Prince Mohammed bin Salman had confirmed that place in a “clear and explicit way”.
The new relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia Trump has been presented by officials as a mega-longness that will bring peace to the region.
A little misconception in Israel
Still, in Israel, there seems to be a bit of a misconception about Trump’s plan.
“It’s too good that it would be true,” said the smiling Ori Brook CBC News in Rainy Street in Jerusalem. “But it’s a nice dream.”
Some divide Trump’s dream of the development of territory, injecting what Sean Sharliv calls “Western values - as in companies, real estate, tourism”.
For the US, President Donald Trump’s plan to take over the devastated Gaza and create a ‘Riviera in the Middle East’ after Palestinians in second place prompted a wide critique, from Palestinians to US Ally Saudi Arabia to the UN Security Council members.
But for most, this can be seen as a way to guarantee Israel safety, preventing future attacks.
“I don’t want Gaza, I want peace,” said the man who gave his name, Amit. He said Palestinians could live there, but that Israeli or US military forces should retain an order.
Most Israelis welcome Trump’s proposal
There are loud voices in Israel who want gauze for themselves. This includes the ultimate right-wing group such as the Jewish Power Party, led by Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was part of the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former National Security Minister, until he resigned because of the Israeli acceptance agreement with a trial with Hamas.
Many of his supporters are immigrants and include those who want to establish Jewish communities in Gaza.
He posted on social networks today a message Trump, saying “Donald, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Ben-Gvir said The “only solution” was “stimulated” by the migration of Gazan.
But even some moderate voices in Israel welcome Trump’s proposal.
Benny Gantz is a centrist politician and a former general who is considered by many to be a less extreme alternative to Netanyahu and his coalition. He said Trump’s plan showed “creative, original and intriguing thinking” and should be studied.
In the meantime, he said it was a priority that the remaining hostage of Israel was from Gaza. On both sides further polarized because of Trump’s proposal, Agreement He may have become more complex for the extension of the truce.
