The Palestinian President said that he firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to resume Gaza and permanently reinstall 2.1 million of the Palestinians who live there.
“We will not allow the rights of our people … to be violated,” said Mahmoud Abbas, warning that Gaza was “an integral part of the Palestine State” and that forced displacement would be a serious violation of international law .
Hamas, whose 15 -month war with Israel caused a general devastation, said that Trump’s plan “would put oil on fire” in the region.
The Arab states have also rejected the idea, Saudi Arabia re -reading that it would not normalize links with Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Neighboring Egypt, which rejected Trump’s suggestion last month that IT and Jordan welcome residents of Gaza, underlined the need for reconstruction “without moving the Palestinians”.
He arrived two weeks after the start of a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, during which Hamas released Israeli hostages which he holds in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
More than 47,540 people have been killed and 111,600 injured in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Hamas in the territory.
Most of the Gaza population has also been moved several times, almost 70% of buildings are estimated to be damaged or destroyed, health, water, sanitation and hygiene systems is are collapsed and there are shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.
President Trump’s first major remarks on Middle East politics broke the decades of us thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He presented them on Tuesday evening at the White House alongside visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip, and we will also do a job with this,” he said. “We have it and will be responsible for the dismantling of all the dangerous unplodced bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of destroyed buildings.”
Trump estimated that around 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza should be moved to achieve his vision of creating “the riviera of the Middle East”, and said that they would be accommodated in Jordan, Egypt and other countries.
When asked if the refugees would finally be allowed to return, he said that “the people of the world” would live in Gaza, before adding “also the Palestinians”.
Trump also dismissed the previous objections of the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to welcome refugees, insisting that they would eventually “open their hearts and give us the type of land we need to do it” .
Netanyahu said that Trump’s proposal could “change history” and “were worth paying attention”, adding: “It is the kind of thought that will reshape the Middle East and bring peace”.
An senior name without a nameless Israeli also said that Trump’s ideas had exceeded all of his “expectations and dreams”.
However, Palestinian leaders condemned the plan in a statement published on Wednesday.
“These calls represent a serious violation of international law,” said President Abbas, adding that “peace and stability will not be carried out in the region without the establishment of a Palestinian state”.
Abbas leads Hamas rivaled to Fatah and governs parts of the West Bank occupied by Israeli.
He declared that the Palestinians would not abandon their land, their rights and their sacred sites “and that” the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the country of the state of Palestine, as well as the West Bank and the East Jerusalem “.
Hamas-which is prohibited as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries-said in a statement that Trump was aimed at the United States to occupy the Gaza Strip ” .
He warned that his proposal was “aggressive towards our people and our cause, will not serve as stability in the region and only put oil on fire”.
The Palestinians of Gaza also said that the plan was completely out of the question.
“We have endured almost a year and a half of bombing and destruction, but we stay in Gaza,” a man told BBC Arabic.
“We would prefer to die in Gaza rather than leave it. We will stay here until we rebuild him. Trump can do what he wants, but we firmly reject his decisions.”
Under international law, attempts to transfer populations of force are strictly prohibited.
The Palestinians also fear a rehearsal of the “Nakba”, or “disaster”, when hundreds of thousands fled or were driven from their houses during the war which followed the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
Many of these refugees met in Gaza, where they and their descendants represent three -quarters of the population. According to Gaza, 900,000 other registered refugees live in the West Bank, which Israel occupied the war of the Middle East of 1967, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the UN.
Israel unilaterally withdrew his troops and his colonists from Gaza in 2005, although he kept control of his border, its airspace and its airspace and its airspace, which gives it effective control of movement people and its goods. The UN still considers Gaza as a territory occupied by Israeli due to the level of control that Israel a.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia declared that the kingdom “rejected unequivocally” Trump’s proposal for Gaza of post-war period and reiterated that it would continue its efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state and “not Establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that. “
“To reach a lasting and just peace is impossible without the Palestinian people obtaining their legitimate rights,” he added.
After interviews in Cairo, the Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdeatty, said that he agreed with the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Mohammed Mustafa on “the importance of moving forward with the Early recovery projects … without the Palestinians leaving the Gaza Strip, in particular with their commitment to their land and refusal to leave it. “
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the relocation of Gaza Palestinians in any form was “unacceptable”, adding: “It is even absurd to consider it.”
Western governments have also expressed an alarm about any forced displacement.
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it “would constitute a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, but also a major obstacle to the two -state solution and a major destabilizing factor for our partners close to Egypt and Jordan, as for the whole region “.
British Foreign Minister David Lammy said: “We have always been clear in our conviction that we have to look for two states. We must see the Palestinians capable of living and prospering in their country of origin, in Gaza, In the West Bank. “