The Palestinian President said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump’s proposal to the United States to take over Gaza and resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians who live there.
“We will not allow the rights of our people … to violate,” Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that Gaza was “an integral part of the state of Palestine” and that forced displacement will be a serious violation of international law.
Hamas, which caused its 15 -month war with Israel in widespread destruction, said that Trump’s plan was “putting oil on fire” in the region.
The Arab countries also rejected the idea, as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia repeated that it would not normalize relations with Israel without establishing a Palestinian state.
The neighboring Egypt, which refused Trump’s proposal last month that he and Jordan in the residents of Gaza stressed the need for reconstruction “without moving the Palestinians.”
It comes two weeks after the start of the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, where Hamas issued some Israeli hostages that they keep in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack across the border on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 grooves were taken.
More than 47,540 people have been killed and 11,600 people were injured in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.
Most Gaza population has been displaced several times, and approximately 70 % of buildings are estimated at damage or destruction, health care, water, sanitation, and image, have collapsed, and there is a lack of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.
President Trump’s first major statements about the Middle East policy were shattered for decades of us to think about the Israeli -Palestinian conflict.
He presented them at the White House on Tuesday night, along with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will work with it as well,” he said. “We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all the dangerous and other uninterrupted bombs on the site, settling the site, and getting rid of destroyed buildings.”
Trump estimated that about 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza must be transferred to achieve his vision to create “Riviera in the Middle East”, and they said they would be shelter in Jordan, Egypt and other countries.
When asked if the refugees would eventually be allowed to return, he said that “the people of the world” will live in Gaza, before the Palestinians also added. “
Trump has also compiled the previous objections from Jordan and Egypt’s leaders to seize the refugees, insist that they will eventually open their hearts and give us a kind of land that we need to accomplish. “
Netanyahu said that Trump’s proposal could “change history” and was “worth paying attention to,” adding: “This is the type of thinking that will reshape the Middle East and achieve peace.”
He was also quoted as a senior Israeli official who was named as saying that Trump’s ideas exceeded all his “expectations and dreams.”
However, the Palestinian leadership condemned the plan in a statement issued on Wednesday.
President Abbas said: “These calls are a serious violation of international law,” adding that “peace and stability will not be achieved in the region without establishing a Palestinian state.”
Abbas is leading the opponents of Hamas, and rules parts of the West Bank occupied by the Israeli.
He announced that the Palestinians will not “abandon their lands, rights and their holy sites” and that “the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the land of Palestine, along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”
Hamas – which is prohibited as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries – said in a statement that Trump was “aiming to occupy the United States, the Gaza Strip.”
He warned that his proposal “is aggressive to our people and causes it, will not serve stability in the area and will put oil on fire.”
The Palestinians in Gaza also said that the plan was completely not complete.
“We have endured nearly a year and a half of bombings and destruction, yet we remain in Gaza,” said one of the Arab BBC men.
“We prefer to die in Gaza instead of leaving it. We will stay here until we rebuild it. Trump can do as he pleases, but we strongly reject his decisions.”
Under international law, attempts to transfer population are prohibited by force.
The Palestinians also fear the repetition of “Nakba”, or “disaster”, when hundreds of thousands of their homes fled during the war that followed the establishment of Israel in 1948.
It ended with many of these refugees in Gaza, where they and their grandchildren are three quarters of the population. 900,000 other registered refugees live in the West Bank, which Israel occupied in the Middle East war in 1967 alongside Gaza, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the United Nations.
Unilaterally Israel withdrew its forces and settlers from Gaza in 2005, although it retained the control of its common borders, air field and coastal line, giving it effective control of the movement of people and goods. The United Nations still considers Gaza as an Israeli region to occupy it due to the level of control of Israel.
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Kingdom “has unambiguously rejected” Trump’s proposal to the post -war Gaza and reiterated that it will continue its efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state and “not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that.”
He added: “The achievement of permanent peace and peace is impossible without the Palestinian people obtaining their legitimate rights.”
After talks in Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdi said that he agreed with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Mustafa on “the importance of moving forward in early recovery projects … without leaving the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, especially with their commitment to their lands and refused to leave the matter.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Vian said that the transfer of the Palestinians from Gaza in any way was “unacceptable”, adding: “From tampering until looking at it.”
Western governments have also expressed their warning about any forced displacement.
The Foreign Ministry in France said it “will be a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, but also a major obstacle to a two -state solution and a major factor to destabilize Egypt, our close partners and Jordan, as well as to the entire region.”
UK Foreign Minister David Lami said: “We have always been clear in our belief that we must search for two states. We must see the Palestinians able to live and prosper in their homelands, in Gaza, in the West Bank,” said UK Foreign Minister David Lami.
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