Saudi Arabia rejects Trump’s proposal to displace Palestinians, take over Gaza

Ayomide Ogunsakin
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The Palestinian Authority has said that it has categorically rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate the residents of the Gaza Strip.

“The Palestinian leadership affirms its firm position that the two-state solution, in accordance with international legitimacy and international law, is the guarantee of security, stability and peace,’’ Hussein al-Sheikh said.

Al-Sheikh is the Secretary-General of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), wrote on X on Wednesday.

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The two-state solution provided for Israel and a Palestinian state to coexist as independent states.

The Palestinian leadership “affirms its rejection of all calls for the displacement of the Palestinian people from their homeland.

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“We were born here, we have lived here and we will remain here,’’ al-Sheikh added.

Their rejection of this proposal is also in recognition of the fact that it would not establish diplomatic relations with Israel — a long-term goal of Washington — without the establishment of a Palestinian state and rejected the idea of displacing Palestinians from the enclave.

During a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump proposed that the United States take a “long-term ownership position” over Gaza and move its residents to another country.

President Donald Trump

Hamas leaders also condemned Trump’s statements and said Palestinians in the enclave oppose displacement.

Following a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip,’’ proposing a “long-term ownership position” over the region and a simultaneous move of its residents to another country.

Trump said that the approximately two million Palestinians living in the territory should be relocated to other countries.

The forced relocation of Palestinians would be in violation of international humanitarian law.

Rule 129 of customary international humanitarian law states: “Parties to an international armed conflict may not deport or forcibly transfer the civilian population of an occupied territory.

“Either in whole or in part, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand.’’

While there are exceptions to the law, none of these is likely to apply in the case of Gaza.

Trump’s blunt approach to Gaza’s future stood in sharp contrast with that of the Biden administration, which spent more than a year making painstaking, repeated visits to the region to try to devise a reconstruction plan that would satisfy the kaleidoscope of competing interests over the war-battered territory.

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