Trump wants Buren Palestinians to take on Gaza ‘clean’

US President Donald Trump has said that he wants Egypt and Jordan to record Palestinians from Gaza.

Trump said he had addressed the Jordanian king Abdullah and that he intended to ask the Egyptian president on Sunday.

Trump described Gaza as a ‘demolition site’ and said, “You are talking about probably one and a half million people, and we just clean up that whole thing.” He added that the move could be “temporary” or “could be” in the long term “.

Both Hamas and the Palestinian authority condemned the proposal. Jordan and Egypt have also rejected the idea.

In Gaza a cease-fire is taken into account after an agreement between Israel and Hamas to stop the war that started when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. About 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken back to Gaza as hostages.

More than 47,200 Palestinians, the majority of which citizens, were killed during the Israeli offensive, says the Ministry of Health in Gaza, led by Hamas.

Most of the two million inhabitants of Gaza have been displaced by the war in the last fifteen months, so that a large part of the infrastructure of Gaza has been laid flat.

The United Nations have previously estimated that 60% of the structures in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and that it can take decades to rebuild them.

Trump made his comments as he spoke with reporters on board the Air Force One.

‘Almost everything is being demolished and people die.

“So I would rather get involved in a number of Arab countries and build houses in a different location, where they might live for a change in peace.”

Trump did not give any further details about the proposal, and it was not referred to in the official reading of the call by the White House.

It is not clear whether the American president formally addressed the request to Egypt, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected such attempts “whether it is now to expel settlements or annexation of land or by Palestinians from their country through displacement Or by encouraging the displacement or uprooting of Palestinians of their country, temporary or long -term. ”

The Jordanian Foreign Minister said the Kingdom said that it was “determined and steadfast” in his rejection of the expulsion of Palestinians.

In Gaza itself, Bassem, a member of the political office of Hamas, told the BBC: “Our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip said dead and destruction for fifteen months … without leaving their land. That is why they will not accept any offer or solution. , even though the good intentions under the name reconstruction, as announced by the proposals of US President Trump.

“Our people will, just as they have thwarted all plans for displacement and an alternative home country in recent decades, also thwart such projects,” he added.

On the West Bank, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas “has expressed a powerful rejection and conviction of all projects aimed at expeling our people from the Gaza Strip”.

Asked about Trump’s comments, Abu Yahya Rashid said, a man who is displaced in the southern city of Khan Younis:

“We are those who decide on our destiny and what we want. This country is ours and the property of our ancestors through history. We will only leave it if corpses leave it.”

Decades of American foreign policy have committed themselves to the establishment of a Palestinian state, with Gaza as an important part. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects this.

Donald Trump has a long history of seemingly obvious and floating ideas that ultimately never become reality.

However, the idea of ​​encouraging residents of Gaza to move to neighboring countries has been promoted for some time by hardline-right members of the Netanyahu government.

The former National Security Minister ITAMAR Ben-Gvir of the Jewish Power party said he would praise Trump for the initiative to transfer residents of Gaza to Jordan and Egypt “.

“One of our demands of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to promote voluntary emigration,” he wrote on X.

The current Israeli Minister of Finance, the extreme right -wing colonist Bezelal Smotrich, has also said that Palestinians have to emigrate to neighboring countries to make the re -establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza possible.

Such comments indignate the Palestinians and proponents of a “two -state solution” – the establishment of an independent Palestinian state next to Israel – will be astonished.

There is fear among the Palestinians that the people around President Trump push him in a more extreme direction when it comes to the policy in the Middle East.

This month, Trump’s candidate rejected to become the next American ambassador in Israel, the Evangelical Christian Mike Huckabee, the idea that there would ever be a Palestinian state.

“The Palestinians had their chance in Gaza,” he said in an American television interview.

“And see what happened there.”

Gaza has been occupied by Israel since 1967.

The comments from Huckabee are in contradiction with six decades of American policy in the Middle East, in which Washington has long promoted the concept of a ‘two-state solution’.

The US has previously said that they oppose any forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank.

According to the UN, there are more than two million Palestinian refugees, most of whom have received citizenship.

They are descendants of some of the approximately 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of their houses during the conflicts around the formation of Israel in 1948.

Thousands of Palestinians have fled to Egypt since the start of the war with Israel, but are not recognized there as a refugee.

Some of the extreme right in Israel want to return to Gaza And establish settlements there. In 2005, Israel ordered a one -sided withdrawal, in which 21 settlements were dismantled and about 9,000 settlers were evacuated by the army.

Trump’s comments came as displaced persons could no longer return to their houses In the north of Gaza after Israel Hamas accused of violating the conditions of a ceasefire.

“There is nothing there – there is no life, everything has been demolished. But still it is a great joy to return to your country, to your house,” said a man who was anxiously waiting for the BBC.

In separate comments on Air Force One, Trump said he had ended the former president Joe Biden’s grip on the delivery of bombs of 2,000 pounds to Israel.

“They paid for it and they have waited a long time,” he told reporters from Air Force One.

The US is by far the largest arms supplier on Israel and helped the country in the construction of one of the technologically advanced armies in the world.

But the war in Gaza led to renewed calls to the US to reduce or end the arms deliveries to Israel, because of the size of destruction caused by American weapons in the area.