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Foreign Minister says Donald Trump’s talk of taking over Gaza and resettling Palestinians is cause for concern
Leaders around the world have condemned Donald Trump’s plan for the United States to take over Gaza to turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Trump said yesterday that the United States should take control of Gaza and permanently evacuate all Palestinians living there.
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too… It will be ours and we will be responsible for it,” said the President of the United States of America.
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris said this morning that Trump’s speech was a cause for concern and that a two-state solution was needed in the area.
Harris said any attempt to drive the people of Gaza from their home would be a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
At a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said that the Palestinian people could be resettled “on a nice piece of land” that would be “fresh and beautiful.”
Trump did not explain what authority the United States would have to seize Gaza.
He called Gaza a “symbol of death and destruction” and claimed that the only reason people were returning there was because they had nowhere else to go.
If they had a place to resettle there that would be “very nice” the people of Gaza would have no desire to return home, he said.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, said that if Palestinian refugees were to be sent to a “satisfactory” place, they could be returned to the places inside Israel where they originally came from.
“Our home is our home. They want to rebuild Gaza – the schools, the hospitals, the infrastructure – because they are at home here and they love living here. And leaders should respect the wishes of the Palestinian people.”
Trump has suggested moving Gazans to countries like Egypt and Jordan, which have flatly rejected any such plan.
Trump’s plan is completely contrary to United States policy towards the Middle East and is also considered to be in complete violation of international law.
It is a violation of international law to transfer people from their homeland against their will and Trump’s proposal could also be seen as an attempt to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their home.
Hamas said Trump’s plan was “racist” and an attempt to eliminate the “Palestinian cause”.
Trump claimed that his plan would make the area a “beneficial” place.
“It has nothing to do with two states, or one state or any other state. It means we are trying to give people a chance to have a life.”
“They never had a chance to have a life because the Gaza Strip is a hellhole for the people who live there. It’s horrible.”
Trump claimed he had a lot of support from other leaders, but he did not say who they were. He said that everyone he spoke to was “very excited” about the idea of the United States owning “that piece of land.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Trump was “the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House.”
He said the “job must be finished” in Gaza and that Israel would “end the war by winning the war.” Netanyahu praised Trump’s “fresh ideas” and his willingness to challenge conventional wisdom.
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