Egypt Daily News – US President Donald Trump has pledged that the United States would control the devastated Gaza Strip due to the war after resettlement of the Palestinians elsewhere and provide economic development.
This step would strike the wall with US policy that has been going on for decades towards the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. Trump revealed his sudden plan without providing details at a joint press conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement came in the aftermath of Trump’s shocking proposal yesterday, Tuesday, to resettle the Palestinians permanently from the Gaza Strip in neighboring countries, and described the Strip as a “demolition site.”
“The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip and we will do our work with it as well,” Trump told reporters. We will be responsible for dismantling all dangerous explosive bombs and other weapons on the site. ” “If necessary, we will do that, and we will take over the Strip, and we will develop it, and we will find thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something that the entire Middle East can be proud of,” Trump added. When asked about who will live there, Trump said it might become a home to the “peoples of the world” and expected to become “Rvira Middle East”.
Netanyahu said that Trump “is thinking outside the box by offering new ideas, appearing in preparation for the bleeding of traditional thinking.” The Israeli army fought a war with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza for more than a year.
But Trump did not respond directly to a question about how the United States would be able to seize and occupy Gaza’s land in Gaza in the long run and under any authority that could do so. “I expect long -term ownership and I see that this will bring great stability to this part of the Middle East,” he said, adding that he spoke to the region’s leaders and supported the idea. “I have studied this closely for many months,” Trump added, saying that he will visit Gaza, but without specifying the appointment.
Trump called earlier yesterday, Jordan and Egypt, to receive the residents of Gaza, saying that the Palestinians there have no alternative except to leave the coastal sector during its rebuilding after a fierce war between Israel and Hamas militants that lasted about 16 months. But this time, Trump said that he would support the resettlement of the Palestinians “permanently”, bypassing his previous suggestions, which Arab leaders have already rejected.
It is likely that the forced displacement of the inhabitants of Gaza will constitute a violation of international law, and it will receive severe opposition not only in the region, but by Washington’s Western allies as well. Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri denounced Trump’s invitation to the residents of the Gaza Strip to leave and said it was “expelled from their land.” He added, “We consider it a recipe for the production of chaos and tension in the region, because the people of Gaza will not allow the passing of these plans, and what is required is to end the occupation and aggression against our people.”
Trump did not provide any details on how to carry out the resettlement process, but his proposal corresponds to the desires of the extreme right in Israel and contradicts his ancestor Joe Biden’s commitment to the lack of mass exodus of the Palestinians. Saudi Arabia confirmed its rejection of any attempt to displace the Palestinians from their land, and said that it will not establish relations with Israel without establishing the Palestinian state.
Just two weeks after the beginning of his second term, Trump hosted Netanyahu at the White House to discuss the future of the ceasefire in Gaza, strategies to confront Iran and hopes to renew the payment towards a normalization agreement for Israeli -Saudi relations. His proposal came about Gaza two weeks later in his post, during which Trump spoke about the United States’ seizure of Greenland, and Panama warned about how it dealt with Panama channel, and announced that Canada should be the fifty -first American state.
“It is a pure demolition area,” he told reporters. If we can find the appropriate plot of land, or many pieces of ground, and build beautiful places on it with a lot of money in the region, this is certain. I think this will be much better than returning to Gaza. Trump made similar statements and Netanyahu next to him in the Oval Office, but he suggested that the Palestinians leave Gaza forever “in beautiful houses where they can be happy and not be shot and killed.” “They will not want to return to Gaza,” he said.
Trump praised the narrow coastal strip, saying that he had potential to be “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Netanyahu, whom Trump has mentioned several as “Bibi”, has not discussed a deep proposal other than praise for the American president for his new approach. Some human rights defenders likened Trump’s proposal to ethnic cleansing.
