Both countries have previously expressed their rejection of an option they see as a new ‘Nakba’ and the end of the two-state initiative. The Israeli far-right applauds Trump’s plan, while Hamas says the Palestinians will never accept this option.
The President of the United StatesDonald Trumpwill pose Egypt and Jordan the possibility that receive one and a half million displaced persons from the Gaza Strip for your medium or long term “accommodation”. in an initiative that both countries have rejected on previous occasions because they understood that it was a new ‘Nakba‘, the ‘catastrophe’ that the Palestinian exodus of 1948 represented, and the elimination of all hope for the realization of a two-state peace solution.
In statements to the American media on board the presidential plane, the Air Force OneTrump has confirmed that he has already discussed the issue in a phone call with Jordanian monarch Abdullah II, and that he plans to do the same with Egyptian President Abdel Fattá Al Sisi this Sunday.
“I told King Abdullah that I would like him to welcome more people because right now you see what is in the Gaza Strip and it is a disaster. It is a real disaster,” Trump said about a country that currently hosts more than 2.3 million Palestinian refugees, according to United Nations figures.
Trump has explained that his administration is not currently considering residency limits for these hypothetical refugees — “it could be something temporary or long-term” — and that the main reason for this decision would be so that the displaced would have safe housing while they The entire Strip is cleared of debris. “We’re probably talking about a million and a half people as we clean the whole thing out to say once and for all, ‘Look, it’s over,’” the North American president added.
“Something has to be done,” the President of the United States has emphasized, “because right now that site is literally a demolition zone, so I’d rather talk to some Arab countries and build houses in another place so that those people can live in peace for a change“.
The far right in Israel is celebrating Trump’s plan to clear Gaza of Palestinians
Israeli Finance Minister, ultranationalist settler Bezalel Smotrich, has welcomed the US president’s proposal. “With God’s help, I will work with the Prime Minister and the government to develop a plan to implement this idea as quickly as possible,” Smotrich said in a statement.
The minister, who lives in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank (settlements are illegal under international law), said it would “help” Gazans “to look for other places to start a new and better life” is an excellent idea.
The Minister of National Security until a week ago, also settler Itamar Ben-Gvir, has also supported Trump’s plan in a message on social networks in which he recalled that one of his demands to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is: promote voluntary emigration .” “We must promote emigration now!” wrote the West Bank settler He left the government last week over his opposition to the ceasefire agreement and the release of hostages together with Hamas.
Since the start of the offensive Israeli settler associations and several ministers from the ruling coalition have asked the government for permission establish settlements in the Strip after the warand have proposed urbanization plans for various parts of the territory.
Hamas assures Palestinians will not accept Trump’s relocation proposal
For his part, he is a member of the Hamas political bureau Basem Naim He has assured that the Palestinians “will not accept any proposal or solution under the guise of reconstruction as proposed by US President (Donald) Trump.” “Our people have thwarted all displacement and alternative land plans for decades and will also reject such projects,” Naim said.
“We call on the US government to stop these proposals that are in line with Israeli plans and contrary to the rights and freedoms of our people,” the Islamist group said in a subsequent statement.
The organization has called on Arab and Muslim countries, especially Egypt and Jordan, to “reaffirm their strong positions of rejection of displacement and deportation” and to provide assistance to the residents of Gaza.
90% of the population (about 2.1 million inhabitants) has been driven out by incessant Israeli bombardments and now there are hundreds of thousands who hope to return to their homes even if they are no longer standing. “You don’t know exactly what it means to have a house until you lose it,” said one of the thousands of Palestinians who gathered in Nuseirat (central Gaza) last night. “We made a mistake by leaving Gaza City (northern) and we will not do that again. Even if the war returns, we will not leave.”
Exactly, today two Palestinians have been killed and 15 others have been injured after The army opened fire on groups of people waiting to enter northern Gazaas stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, as confirmed by Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, in the center of the Strip.
Aerial photographs of the coastal areas of central Gaza, along the Rashi Highway, which runs from north to south through the enclave and which Palestinians will have to use to return to their homes in the north, show thousands of people waiting for permission from Israel .
Source: EITB
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