Posted on 02/05/2025 10:21:51 AM PST by jerod
Trump's pitch to turn Gaza into 'Riviera of the Middle East' sparked widespread condemnation in Gaza, globally
U.S. President Donald Trump's pitch to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after permanently displacing its residents was met with unified anger and concern from Palestinians in Gaza Wednesday.
Trump raised the prospect of relocating more than two million Palestinians living there during a visit to Washington Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He suggested it had become uninhabitable after nearly 16 months of war between Israel and Hamas.
Hanan Al-Shennawi said that while there is instability and an unclear future for Palestinians who remain in Gaza, they refuse to leave their land.
"We will not allow this because this is our country and our land. We're going to remain steadfast here … and we're not going to hand over this land," said Al-Shennawi, 22, from west of Gaza City.
Al-Shennawi said she does not expect Arab countries to stand behind Palestinians in rejecting the plan, which, if enforced, would breach international law.
"The Arab nations didn't stand with us from the beginning of the war, so they are not going to come stand with us now at the end of it and in the face of Trump," she told CBC freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife on Wednesday.
"They allowed [Israel] to displace us from the north to the south, so it's normal for them to displace us outside of the Gaza Strip."
Trump's latest comments to turn Gaza into a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere has shattered U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and sparked widespread condemnation.
Concerns for forced displacement
Mohammed Abu Musa, 26, said he worries Trump's plan for Gaza will progress and he and his family will be forced to seek refuge in other countries.
"The development in Gaza won't be for its residents, of course," Abu Musa said. "Why force out its residents for the development? Let the residents benefit from it.
"The [Gaza] Strip is the only place that is clear from the [Israeli] occupation. These 360 [square] kilometres. If [it] no longer remains, then the Palestinian cause will fall apart," he said.
He called on other Arab nations to reject Trump's plan, adding that if "we're stabbed, then they're stabbed as well."
Trump has previously talked about relocating the Palestinian population of Gaza to other countries and repeatedly called Gaza a "demolition site."
"We just clean out that whole thing," Trump reportedly told reporters on Air Force One on Jan. 25.
'Nothing but pressure' Others, meanwhile, did not think Trump's words carried any weight.
Taher Al-Najjar, 30, said Trump's plan is "all nonsense" and does not expect it to affect Palestinians.
"These are just empty words. We were under war for 15 [months] and bombing and death and the people were not displaced.… There is nothing that will displace us," Al-Najjar said.
"If we are displaced then there is no Palestinian cause because we will be refugees."
Abdullah Al-Ghafri, 27, echoed that sentiment.
"It's nothing but pressure," Al-Ghafri said...
He said that Palestinian's ties to their land will not allow them to give it up for any reason, pointing to how residents from northern Gaza returned to their homes from the south as soon as they were allowed.
"People left their things, their blankets, everything they collected for the last year…. They left it in the south and returned to the north," he said.
"This shows the attachment to the land. A person is attached to his land, went home alone and returned to his land to start from scratch."...
Wanna bet?
Just hand it over to Israel as Israeli territory. Problem solved.
Death could.
God gave Israel, not the U.S., the right to displace the Palestinians and possess Gaza.
I think Trump is on shaky ground here.
Unified anger and concern from Palestinians in Gaza Wednesday.
Because it’s Wednesday.
For all their denials, they need to be forcibly removed. Right now (and for decades) the only thing to do in Gaza has been to hate on their neighbors. Forcing them elsewhere and taking away the welfare system that has fed and enabled that hatred will make them get jobs in their new locations and get on with their lives. In 20 years most of them will say it was the best thing that ever happened to them.
Look at all of the cr@p at the edge of the beach.
Make Gaza the Jersey Shore. And clean that litter off the beach.
Fine, stay there..NO rebuilding, NO money, enjoy living in your own filth, zero aid money from the US, we already gave them BILLIONS of dollars which they used to build tunnels to kill Jews, so yeah game OVER..they want to sit in their own rotten filth like the filth they are, they can enjoy it til the cows come home
BTW those are NOT the two girls I saw sunbathing while I was running home....
It was always Israeli territory, Israel gave it to Gaza for “Peace” yeah how did that work out for them
Pretty sure I read where that is Israel's plan.
Oh yes there it is. Read minor profit book of Obadiah. Edomites destroyed.
Like Ukraine....the people prefer to be welfare nations...always wars and always rebuilding what they’ve never earned,....
How many of those ahos are already shacked up in America and living off the U.S. taxpayers?
If I remember the history correctly, Jews living in the Gaza strip were the ones displaced shortly after their war for independence in 1948.
“If [it] no longer remains, then the Palestinian cause will fall apart,”
Well, duh, that is the whole point, no more jihad. No more terrorism, no more bombings, no more kidnappings, no more death.
Did you think holding 7 American hostages (4 dead, 1 released, 2 still being held) was cute? that we would allow you to do it again?
See..BS
Double Bag Barf Alert.
Likes and Propaganda.
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