Trump Says U.S. Should Control Gaza Strip: Live Reaction and Updates

Riyadh Mansour, the leader of Palestinian delegations to the United Nations, said on social media that instead of moving to other countries, Palestinians in Gaza should allow to regain what Palestinian homes in Israel were once.

“For those who want to send” Gazane “to a happy” beautiful place “,” Said Mr. MansourUsing the language that Mr. Trump hired: “Let them go back, you know, to their original homes in Israel. There are beautiful places there and will be happy to return to these places.”

He added that the Palestinians wanted to rebuild Gaza themselves and urged the world leaders to respect their wishes.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a statement that did not directly relate to Mr. Trump’s remarks, although time suggested that it was a response to his proposal. The Ministry said it reaffirmed its “complete rejection of any violation of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, whether through Israeli settlement policy, annexation of Palestinian countries, or an attempt to move the Palestinian people from their country.”

“The duty of the international community today is to work to alleviate the heavy human suffering that has been inflicted on the Palestinian people, which will remain dedicated to their country and will not move from it,” the Ministry said.

In the United States, Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut, said that Mr. Trump-Trump’s proposal was flying before decades ahead of the debate about how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-needed to distract people from attempting Elon Musk to reduce the US Government on behalf of Mr. Trump.

“I have news for you – we don’t take over Gaza,” Mr. Murphy said on social networks. “But the media and the chatter class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will be able to distract everything from the actual story – billionaires who have taken away the government to steal from regular people.”

Another Democratic Senator, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, called Mr. Trump’s proposal “by ethnic cleansing another name,” adding, “This statement will make ammunition to Iran and other opponents while undermining our Arab partners in the region.”

Former Republican Congressman of Michigan, Justin Amaash, whose family of Palestinian origin, also compared Mr. Trump’s proposal with ethnic cleansing. “If the United States distributes troops to forcibly remove Muslims and Christians – like my relatives – out of Gaza, not only will it be stifled in another reckless occupation, but it will be guilty of crime for ethnic cleansing,” He said. “No American good conscience should be for that.”

On Saturday, a wide group of Arab peoples rejected Mr. Trump’s earlier proposal to move Gazani to Egypt and Jordan – a proposal that did not mention that the United States had taken over the enclave. In a joint statement, the countries said such a plan would risk further expanding the conflict in the Middle East.

A statement, signed by officials from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countriesS, he said that any plan that encourages “switching or exploiting Palestinians from their country” would threaten stability in the region and “undermine the chances of peace and coexistence among their people.”

Nihad Awad, the National CEO of Council for US-Islamic Relations, rejected Mr. Trump’s proposal on Tuesday in a statement, saying that forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza would encourage conflict, to bring the reputation of the United States and make international law pointless. (When asked if he would force Palestinians to leave, Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think he will tell me no.”)

“Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States, and the invitation of President Trump to move Palestine from their country or temporarily or permanently an absolute non-Stateter,” Mr. Awad said in his statement. “Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the whole Muslim world made it clear that this misconception was the idea of ​​unacceptable.”

The Israeli Finance Minister of Finance, Bezalel Review, who claims that Israel was supposed to annexed Palestinian territories, seemed to delight the proposal of Mr. Trump. In the post of social media, after Mr. Trump’s remarks, he thanked the president in Hebrew without citing him for thanks to him, and he said, “Even even better and even better.”

In English, In addition to the emoji of Israeli and American flagsMr. Dirotrich added, “Together, again we will make the world great.”

Liam Sweet contribute to reporting.