To understand, by pushing nearly two million, it even shocked senior officials to government officials – in the midst of a global alarm – to attempt to mitigate the shocking data of the extreme plan.
Many consultants estimate that the idea of the “long -term ownership” of the Palestinian enclave will disappear silently, as the impossible of its implementation has become clearer to the president. By Wednesday afternoon, this seemed to be the case with White House spokesman Caroline Levitt, tried to alleviate Trump’s positions on the Palestinian relocation and the use of US troops by changing the original wording to “temporary”. And arguing that there is no commitment to the presence of US army in the dismantled lane or funds to rebuild it. Levit insisted that the president is looking for an agreement on Gaza with region countries.
Foreign Minister Marko Rubio said the president only proposed to clear and rebuild Gaza, not to take over and had no hostile intentions for the Palestinians.
In addition, according to a Republican Senator, Steve Whitkov, the Middle East special envoy, told their team – closed doors – that Trump “does not want to put US troops on Palestinian territory and does not want to spend a US dollars” Gaza.
“The whole area has to find its own solutions if she doesn’t like Trump’s solution,” White Security Consultant Mike Waltz told CBS.
According to a senior adviser to Axios, “Trump is a builder. He knows how to rebuild again. He is a leader. And he is the absolute negotiator … Everything is a negotiation. And what he wants is a negotiation for peace. So everything is on the table. “
Night associates of the US president acknowledged that the government had not even done the elementary to consider whether the idea was applicable and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not been informed that Trump would announce such an extreme plan. Their meeting, at the White House. Experts emphasized that this proposal was so strange, even for a negotiating tactic.
The Democrats categorically rejected the proposal. “This is ethnic cleansing with another name,” said Senator Chris Van Hollen on the MSNBC television network.
The Trump plan has triggered a strong reaction from the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia, a major US ally. However, he made many far-right Israelis and some pro-Israeli Americans. The Palestinians in Gaza expressed a mixture of condemnation and confusion.
After all, the conversion of Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East”, as Trump put it, would be time -consuming and extremely expensive.
Netanyahu is still seeing the idea
At the same time, the Israeli prime minister is clearly in favor of the Trump plan, which, among the jokes, provides for the displacement of the Palestinians by the Gaza Strip.
“In fact, the idea is to allow the Gazans who want to leave. So what’s the bad thing about it? They can leave, they can turn back after, they can relocate and come back. But Gaza has to be rebuilt, “Benjamin Netanyahu said during an interview with Fox News, the television network that the American Right prefers.
In his speech, UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres explicitly warned against “ethnic cleansing” in the Palestinian pocket after 15 months of war.
However, the Republican president himself assured that “the whole world loved” his proposal, which he announced in a very critical time, as indirect negotiations are expected to resume the brittle arrest.
Hamas accused him of “pouring oil on the fire”.
“We will not allow the rights of our people to be violated,” the Palestinian Authority’s president Mahmoud Abbas opposed themselves, although Hamas’ opponent.
In the small densely populated area under siege, tens of thousands of Palestinians, who were mostly destroyed houses, thanks to the ceasefire, excluded every case to leave.
“We came back despite the massive disasters (…) we came back because we categorically refuse to displace,” summed Ahmed Al Minau, who returned to the city of Gaza.
“I am a gazy, my father and my grandfather come from here (…) we only have one choice: to live or die here,” added Ahmad Halasa, a 41 -year -old resident of the same city.
In contrast to Kfir Dekel, a 48 -year -old Israeli, who lives in the border area with the Gaza Strip, “Trump’s plan makes sense. Gaza is completely damaged and it is impossible to rebuild as there is people there. Let them leave and make their lives elsewhere, and we will truly make this place of peace. “
Cairo: The only solution is the strengthening of the Palestinian Authority
Cairo called on the Palestinian Authority to regain control of the area, from which it was expelled in 2007, when Hamas took power. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelati emphasized “the importance to politically and financially strengthen the Palestinian Authority” in the Gaza Strip.
During a meeting in Cairo with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Mustafa, Abdelati said that Egypt is looking forward to the Palestinian authority to “take responsibility for the Gaza Strip” which is “part of the occupied Palestinian areas” of.
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al -Sisi and Emmanuel Macron’s French counterpart warned that they would consider “unacceptable” the “coercive displacement of the Palestinian population in Gaza, as well as the West Bank”. It would be a “blatant violation of international law”, a “obstacle to the solution of the two states and a major agents of destabilization of Egypt and Jordan”, agreed during their conference, according to an Elise press release.
Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the Arab League and the European Union rejected the plan presented by Donald Trump.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Falker Turks, recalled that any coercive displacement or expulsion of a population in the area under occupation is “strictly forbidden”.
A great opponent of the ceasefire agreement, Israeli far -right Minister Bezalel Smotric was sworn in yesterday to do everything to “permanently” the idea of establishing a Palestinian state.
The Israeli organization of human rights defense B’Tselem described the Trump plan as “madly”. Amnesty International Secretary -General Anies Kalamar saw “a form of colonization of the 21st century”.
“Many of the catastrophes in Gaza reflect calculated Israeli policy aimed at uninhabited some parts of the Strip,” said Lama Faki, director of the Middle East and North African Human Rights Observatory (Human Rights Watch) . With the Trump Plan “the US from complicity in war crimes will move on to the direct commitment of atrocities,” he added.
