The Palestinian president said he strongly rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal to take over the United States and permanently resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there.
Mahmoud Abbas stressed: “We will not allow our people’s rights … to violate.
Hamas’ 15-month war with Israel caused widespread damage, and he said Trump’s plans will “fire” in the region.
The Arab states also rejected the idea, and Saudi Arabia reiterated that it would not normalize ties with Israel without a Palestinian state.
Neighboring Egypt rejected Trump’s suggestion last month that Jordan and Jordan had accepted Gaza residents, stressing the need for “removing Palestinians” to rebuild.
Two weeks after the fragile ceasefire in Gaza began, Hamas released some Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the unprecedented cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
More than 47,540 people have been killed in Gaza and 111,600 injured in Gaza, according to the Hamas-Ministry of Operations in the region.
Most of Gaza’s population has also been displaced multiple times, with an estimated nearly 70% of buildings being damaged or damaged, health care, water, sanitation and sanitation systems already collapsed, and food, fuel, medicine and shelter shortages.
President Trump’s first major comment on Middle East policy has undermined our decades of thinking about the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
He showed it to the White House with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do the job,” he said. “We will own it and be responsible for demolishing all the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, leveling the site and ridding the destroyed buildings. .”
Trump estimates that about 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza must relocate to achieve their vision of creating the “Middle Eastern Riviera” and says they will be placed in Jordan, Egypt and other countries.
When asked whether refugees were finally allowed to return, he said that the “people of the world” would live in Gaza and then join “also Palestinian.”
Trump also refuted previous objections from leaders of Jordan and Egypt to attract refugees and insisted that they will eventually “open hearts and will give us the land we need to accomplish this.”
Netanyahu said Trump’s proposal could “change history” and “worth attention”, adding: “This idea will reshape the Middle East and bring peace.”
An Israeli official who asked not to be named was also quoted as saying that Trump’s thoughts exceeded all his “expectations and dreams.”
But Palestinian leaders condemned the plan in a statement issued on Wednesday.
“These appeals are serious violations of international law,” President Abbas said, adding that “peace and stability will not be achieved in the region without a Palestinian state being established”.
Abbas led Hamas rival Fatah and ruled parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
He declared that Palestinians would not “give up their land, rights and sacred sites” and that “the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the land in the Palestinian State, as well as the West and East Coasts and East Jerusalem.”
Hamas, who has been banned as a terrorist organization in Israel, the United States, Britain and other countries, said in a statement that Trump “is aimed at getting the United States to occupy the Gaza Strip.”
It warned that his proposal “is aggressive to our people, not stable in the region, and will only place oil on fires”.
Palestinians in Gaza also said the plan was completely impossible.
A man told the BBC Arabic: “We have endured the explosion and destruction for nearly a year and a half, but we are still in Gaza.”
“We would rather die in Gaza than leave it. We will stay here until we rebuild it. Trump can do it as he wishes, but we firmly rejected his decision.”
According to international law, attempts to forcibly transfer people are strictly prohibited.
Palestinians are also afraid of repeating “Nakba” or “catastrophe” when thousands fled or fled their homes in the war to establish the State of Israel in 1948.
Many of these refugees end up in Gaza, where they and their descendants make up three-quarters of the population. According to the United Nations, another 900,000 registered refugees live in the West Bank, Israel, together with Gaza, occupied by the Middle East War in 1967, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Israel unilaterally withdrew its troops and settlers in 2005, although it retained control of its shared borders, airspace and coastline, thus effectively controlling the movement of people and cargo. Due to Israel’s level of control, the United Nations still regards Gaza as an Israeli-occupied territory.
The Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry said the kingdom “clearly rejected” Trump’s proposal to post-war Gaza and reiterated that it would continue its efforts to build an independent Palestinian state and “no diplomatic relations with Israel.”
It added: “It is impossible to achieve durability and justice without the Palestinian people’s legal rights.”
After talks in Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said he had agreed with the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa. and refuse to leave it”.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said it was “unacceptable” to relocate Palestinians from Gaza in any form, adding: “It’s ridiculous to even consider this.”
Western governments also alerted any forced displacement.
The French Foreign Ministry said this would be “a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, a major obstacle to the two-state solution, and a major instability factor for our close partners Egypt and Jordan, as well as the region as well as the region as a whole.”
“We have always believed that we must seek two states. We have to see Palestinians be able to live and prosper in their homelands, Gaza, the West Bank.”
