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Donald Trump’s plans were met with the United States to take over Gaza with anger and dismay all over the Arab world, and raised fears of the reformulation of the conflict in the region.
The US President said on Tuesday evening that the United States must “take over” the devastating Gaza Strip, which is rolling from it after more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas, and the Palestinian population should be resettled 2.2 million.
Palestinian leaders said on Wednesday that they would challenge any attempts to remove them from their land.
“Data [by Trump] Hamas, the armed group that has been controlling Gaza since 2007, said that the aggression for our people and our cause will not serve stability in the region and will not only pour fuel on fire.
“We call on the American administration and President Trump to withdraw this irresponsible data. We call on the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the United Nations to the resistance urgently. To take a fixed and historical position that preserves the rights of the Palestinian Palestinian people.”
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, said: “We will not allow the rights of our people, for which we have struggled for decades and made great sacrifices to achieve them, for violating them.
“These calls are a serious violation of international law.”
He added: “Peace and stability will not be achieved in the region without establishing a Palestinian state. Based on the two -state solution.”
European and Arab countries were pushing for the Palestinian Authority, which practiced limited self -government in parts of the occupied West Bank, for a role in governing Gaza after the war.
Arab countries have long rejected any other expulsion of the Palestinians. The exit of the Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948, known to the Palestinians in the name of the Nakba or the catastrophe, invented waves of displacement in neighboring countries and operating years of instability in the region.
The neighboring Jordan and Egypt have previously refused Trump’s proposal that they should accept the displaced Palestinian refugees.
In statements cited by government television on Wednesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdi said it is important to proceed with the recovery programs in Gaza. He also said it was important to accelerate the delivery of aid without leaving the Palestinians to the region.
Abdati’s statements came after a meeting with Mohamed Mustafa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority. Abdati said that the Palestinian Authority should bear the responsibility of Gaza and that Egypt supported the “inaccurable” rights of the Palestinian people in addition to a two -state solution. Jordan has not yet responded to Trump’s latest comments.
Trump’s threat to secure Gaza with American soldiers will revive memories of the 2003 American invasion and the occupation of Iraq, which is increasing in the stability of the region and America’s reputation in the Arab world.
Trump’s intervention also threatens to undermine his goal of making more effort to normalize relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is considered the closest ally of Trump in the oil -rich Gulf region, refused on Wednesday the displacement of the Palestinians and said that it will not take place peace talks with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state was established.
After successfully normalization deals between Israel and the United States of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during its first term, it was widely expected to follow a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
But the Israel war in Gaza, which led to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and its hardening position towards Israel and saw that he found a commitment to an independent Palestinian state.
The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, previously described the Israeli attack, which killed about 47,000 people in Gaza as “genocide.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia “will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel” without an independent Palestinian state and stressed that this position is “negotiable and is not subject to concessions.”
Besides the Arab world, the two countries, including France and Russia, have indicated their support for a two -state solution. France also refused to control the “third party” in Gaza, referring to Trump’s pocket plan.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Vian said that Trump’s statements on Gaza were “unacceptable.”
In comments on the Anadolu state agency, he added: “We or the region will not accept a deportation from Gaza. Why did he offer proposals that do not stop conflict but will bring more conflict?”