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The proposal of President Donald Trump that the United States “takes” the Gaza Strip and definitely reimburses its Palestinian citizens was temporarily rejected and denounced on Wednesday through American allies and adversaries.
Trump’s suggestion came at a White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who smiled several times as the president detailed a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip, and for the US to take “ownership” in redeveloping the war-torn territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
“The United States will take the Gaza Strip, and we will also do a task of that,” Trump said.
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“We own it and we will be guilty of dismantling all the harmful unexploded bombs and other weapons in Thearray by leveling and disposing of destroyed buildings, leveling, creating economic progress that will provide an unlimited number of jobs. “
His remarks drew swift opposition and were certain to roil the ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad denounced Trump’s “racist comments”, promising to fight the president’s plans in Gaza.
The organization said that the Israel bombing crusade could not force the Palestinians to leave Gaza and that “Trump’s recent comments fail to move them. “
He promised opposite combat to any plan to move the Palestinians of their territories.
“Our other Palestinian people still have the option of resistance, which they have been practicing for more than a century,” he said.
Egyptian and Palestinian officials call to rebuild Gaza without forcing out Palestinians.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt and the Palestinian Prime Minister requested Wednesday to rebuild Gaza forcing their Palestinian residents.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa provided “an embodied vision” for clearing the rubble and rebuilding Gaza in cooperation with foreign groups, according to an Egyptian Foreign Ministry after Mustafa met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdeatty in Cairo.
The statement did not respond to Trump’s comments, but said the two parties called to increase the reconstruction and childbirth of the aid “without moving the Palestinians of the Gaza strip. “
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said President Donald Trump’s comments on the “unacceptable” Gaza Strip.
Fidan, in an interview with the state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, said the past displacement of Palestinians from their lands and the settlement of Israelis in those areas was the root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The deportation factor from Gaza is nothing that the region or we would accept. Even thinking about it, in my opinion, is absurd,” he said.
Fidan added that there is a general consensus for A to two states, with East Jerusalem as the capital of a sovereign Palestinian state.
Fidan also reiterated his fear that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, can resume attacks against Gaza after the release of all Israeli hostages that were maintained through Hamas and wondered how the countries involved in maintaining the ceasefies -fo They would be effective.
“We’ll have to see what kind of position or sanctions will ensure that countries just take. Among the countries that secure the ceasefire, the only one that can exert significant tension against Israel is the United States,” Fidan said.
China opposes the forced relocation of others to Gaza, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry in Beijing said on Wednesday when questioning Trump’s comments.
“China has always believed that Palestinian rule is the basic principle of post-war governance in Gaza,” said spokesperson Lin Jian.
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He reiterated Beijing’s longstanding support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The president of the American Chamber, Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, praised Trump’s comments for taking a “daring action with the hope of sustainable peace in Gaza. “
“We hope this will bring stability and security to the region,” he wrote in X.
An official of the Yemen Houthi rebels criticized President Donald Trump in the Gaza Strip.
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a Houthi leader, wrote on the social platform X that Trump’s comments represented “American arrogance” that presents everything if found through “submission of the Arabs. “
“If Egypt or Jordan or to challenge the United States, Yemen will be with all its strength through its side, to the greater extent and without red lines,” he added.
The hutis introduced attacks against Israel and advertising expeditions that crossed the Red Sea Hall of Israel-Ahamas. Their attacks have stopped with the high fire in the war, but they pass through the Suez Canal, very important for the Egyptian economy, divided through two their campaign.
The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, supported President Donald Trump in the Gaza Strip.
“Gaza will have to be loose from Hamas,” Rubio wrote on the social platform X.
“The United States stands ready to lead and Make Gaza Beautiful Again,” Rubio wrote in a play on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. “Our pursuit is one of lasting peace in the region for all people.”
However, Trump’s comments sparked an early complaint from Saudi Arabia and others in the Middle East, which has long pleaded with the Palestinians to have an independent state on the Gaza Strip and West Bankarray with East Jerusalem as its capital.