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President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and denounced on Wednesday by American allies and adversaries alike.
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 US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said.
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“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs.”
His remarks drew swift opposition and were certain to roil the ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has denounced Trump’s “racist comments,” vowing to fight the US president’s plans in Gaza.
The group said in a statement that Israel’s bombing campaign had failed to force Palestinians to leave Gaza and that Trump’s “recent comments won’t succeed in transferring them.”
He has promised to combat 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 are asking for the reconstruction of Gaza forcing the Palestinians.
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Egypt’s foreign minister and the Palestinian prime minister on Wednesday called to rebuild Gaza without forcing out its Palestinian residents.
The Palestinian prime minister, Mohamad Mustafa, provided “an incorporated vision” for transparent debris and rebuild Gaza in cooperation with foreign groups, according to a Ministry of Egyptian Foreign Affairs after Mustafa met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Egyptian Badr Abdeatty In Cairo.
The statement did not address Trump’s remarks directly but said both sides called to accelerate rebuilding and the delivery of aid “without moving the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said President Donald Trump’s comments on the Gaza Strip were “unacceptable.”
Fidan, in an interview with the state agency Anadolu on Wednesday, said that the displacement beyond the displacement of the Palestinians of their lands and the agreement of the Israelis in those spaces the root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The deportations from Gaza are nothing that the region or we would accept. Even to think about it, in my opinion, is false and absurd,” he said.
Fidan added that there is a consensus for a solution of two states, with this 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 of Hamas and questioned how effective the countries in question would be effective by keeping the fire.
“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 believed that the Palestinian regime is the fundamental precept of postwar governance in Gaza,” said spokesman Lin Jian.
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He reiterated Beijing’s long help for a solution to two states to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, praised Trump’s remarks as taking a “bold action in hopes of achieving lasting peace in Gaza.”
“We hope this will bring stability and security to the region,” he wrote in X.
An official with Yemen’s Houthi rebels has criticized President Donald Trump’s comments on 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 both to challenge the United States, Yemen will be sustained with all its strength through its side, to the maximum remote and without red lines,” he added.
The Houthis introduced attacks on Israel and advertising mailings that cross the Red Sea hall The Israel-Hamas War. Their attacks stopped with the ceasefire in the war, but they are in transit through the Suez Canal, very important for the Egyptian economy, which has reduced its campaign. .
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has backed President Donald Trump’s comments on the Gaza Strip.
“Gaza MUST BE FREE from Hamas,” Rubio wrote on the social platform X.
“The United States is in a position to lead and make Gaza Beautiful again,” Rubio wrote in a room in the slogan “Make America Great Again” Crusade. “Our quest is for lasting peace in the region for all. “
However, Trump’s comments aroused a speedy complaint of Saudi Arabia and others in the Middle East, which for a long time begged the Palestinians to have an independent state in Gaza Strip and Bankarray with East Jerusalem as capital.