Nakba Survivors see the echoes of the past in Trump’s calls to expulsion of gauze | Gaza news

President of the United States Donald Trump Set Alarm Bells this month when, standing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In the White House, he said that now he would “take control” the gauze strips and move Palestine in other countries.

Trump framed the expulsion of the Palestinian population from the railway – left unrecognizable Israeli bombing – as an act of humanitarian need, citing a threat of an unploded command and unstable structures.

Palestinians should be able to live in “beautiful houses,” Trump added. Just not in the gauze itself.

But Palestinians say the promise of new achievements in foreign land Skirts demand in the center of their aspirations: the right to life with dignity and equal rights in their historical homeland.

“My first reaction was disbelief. For the president to invite two million people from his own country,” said Leila Giries, a Palestinian living in California.

For girls and other Palestinians, an invitation to expulsion of calls for painful memories of deviation and exile.

The wires themselves survived the events that Palestinians are called Nakbawhich means “disaster”.

Expression refers to Forcibly expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians by Zionist paramilitary paramora during the founding of Israel in 1948. The residents of many Palestinian cities and villages are forbidden to ever return, and the newly established Israeli state considered “infiltors”.

Giries holds a bag that her mother wore while running away from their village Ayn Karim framed to the wall of her residence in California, along with the key to their home in the historic Palestine that was demolished after their expulsion.

The objects are symbols and pain of exile and her determination to maintain ties with her homeland.

“I left Palestine when I was eight, but I can’t forget it. From there, my parents and grandparents are. I’m connected to the country,” Giries said.

“When I see photos of the crowds of displaced people marching the road in Gaza, that breaks my heart. Restores memories, memories, memories.”

‘Palestinians will not disappear and die’

After a fierce return reaction from Palestinians, a group of rights and coalitions of leaders from countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Trump mitigated his position by saying that he will only “suggest” adoption His plan.

The US president has previously insisted that he will “own” Gaza, stating that the place by the sea could turn it into an ideal place for top real estate.

This week Trump even shared bizarre Ai-ratio video On the social media showing gauze filled with skyscrapers and luxurious resorts, and Netanyahu relaxing past the pool.

Significantly absent was a sign of Palestinians who called Gaza home for generations.

“Only a fool would think it was possible to clean the Palestinian gauze, so you can build a real estate project,” says Michael Kardoush, who fled at his home in Nazareth after coming under Israeli control in 1948. The Palestinians in Israeli territory lived under marcal law until 1966.

“The reality is that Palestinians will not disappear and die.”

But Israeli leaders and officials continued to promote impatiently Trump’s vision, seeing the opportunity to improve the long -standing ambition to depopulate the strap.

In a statement last week, Netanyahu said Israel was “committed to the plan of US President Trump to create a different gauze”, which he had previously praised as “revolutionary”.

But Muhammad Shehada, a visiting colleague from the European External Relations Council that grew up in Gaza, said Al Jazeera that Israeli and American efforts were to force Palestine from their country a consistent feature of the modern history of Gaza.

“When Israel took over Gaza in 1967, one of the first things destroyed refugee camps to try to make people leave. They even offered money, foreign passports and shadows to try to get people to do so,” he said.

If such incentives did not succeed, he says Israel tried a more compulsion method, from deadly military raids to a years of blockage This created terrible living conditions in Gaza even before the latest war.

“They tried every trick in the book,” Shehada said.

But he added that these efforts rarely enjoyed success and often faced the firm opposition of Palestinians, who see attempts to move them from the railway as part of the greater effort to undo their national claims.

Shehada pointed out that in 1953, a plan for moving 12,000 Palestinians from Gaza to the Egyptian Sinai stopped after a popular rebellion in the lane.

Attachment to land

Even during the latest 15-month military campaign of Israel in Gaza, unprecedented for his own destructiveness And human toll, many Palestinians remained firmly attached to their sense of place in Gaza.

Arwa Shurrab, a 58-year-old woman born in Gaza but now lives in southern California, says that her family members who continued to live in the railway refused to leave until they felt they had a little choice.

“I tried to convince my sister to go to Egypt where she would be safer, but she said she would only leave if the building where she was staying in,” said Shurrab.

Explained that her sister and family were displaced many times during the war. They finally decided to leave when a tent was bombarded. Fortunately, they weren’t inside at the time.

“She’s a pediatrician and she wanted to stay in Gaza and help her people. That’s why she lost everything,” Shurrab added.

Although the Israeli bombing campaign paused under a A strong interruption of fire Last month, many Palestinians in Gaza remain in uncertain circumstances. The military attack reduced many fourth to ruins.

During the war, Israeli forces were accused of intentionally Destruction of homes,, agricultural countries And infrastructure for medical care, water and electricity, so that the Palestinians are impossible to return home after the fighting has ended.

But many Gaza residents say they are still determined to find the way forward.

“Palestinians are very connected to the country. Everyone who knows who have gone want to come back. The question is whether, not when,” Shurrab said.

“Trump’s comments did not affect me at all. I don’t take seriously because I know my family and I know the gaza people. It won’t be rooted from their country,” she added. “So Trump can say whatever he wants, but it doesn’t do that.”