House Speaker Mike Johnson subsidized President Donald Trump on Wednesday, a day after he announced the U. S. is “taking over” the Gaza Strip and stirred controversy for calling for the relocation of Palestinians from the war-torn enclave, even as the White House says U. S. troops have not committed to the effort.
Feb. 5, 2 p.m. ESTJohnson called the proposal “a bold move” and said to do nothing in the Gaza Strip would leave open doors for terrorist organizations to “eliminate Israel as a state.” He asked people to “withhold judgement” until a more formal plan is announced.
Feb. 5, 1:30 p.m. ESTWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president’s plan for Gaza has not been fleshed out and was “written … as he revealed it to the world.” She said “the president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza” and said that any displacement of Palestinians from the area—which has been likened to ethnic cleansing—would be temporary.
“The president obviously said they deserve to be temporarily transferred from Gaza for the reconstruction of this effort,” Leavitt said. “Once again, it is a demolition site at this time. It is not a life position for a human being. And I think it is quite bad to recommend that other people deserve to live in disastrous situations.
February 5, 1:30 p. m. The state Esdecaire Marco Rubio made comments by suggesting that Trump was providing assistance and rebuilding the region, not to be appropriate: “The only thing that President Trump has done, very generously, in my opinion, is to provide the will of the United States to intervene, Blank for the debris, blank for the position of the entire destructionry . . . so that other people can pass again, “Rubio said.
Rubio tweeted “make Gaza be beautiful again. “
February 5, 12:30 p. m. Estisrael that she would withdraw from her participation in the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Feb. 5, 12 p.m. ESTThe United Nations spokesman Stéphane Dujarric did not directly comment on Trump’s plan but said that “any forced displacement of people is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.”
Feb. 5, 8 a.m. ESTTrump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, told Fox Business the president’s plan to relocate residents of the Gaza Strip is a necessary step in the rebuilding process and the administration has been asking leaders in the region about the proposal: “We’ve talked to the Saudis, we’ve talked to the Egyptians, we’ve talked to the Jordanians. Of course, we have Bibi Netanyahu here. What’s the plan?” he said.
Feb. 5, 7:30 a.m. ESTSen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the U.S. has “no business” occupying the Gaza Strip, adding “I thought we voted for America First.”
Feb. 5, 7:30 a.m. ESTPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the United Nations to step in to “protect the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights,” and said that Trump’s plan would be “a serious violation of international law.”
Feb. 5, 7:30 a.m. ESTBadr Abdelatty, the foreign minister of Egypt—one of the countries that Trump has proposed as a site for the resettlement of Palestinians—met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa and said Cairo was eager for the Palestinian Authority to “assume its duties in the Gaza Strip as part of the occupied Palestinian territories.”
While Abdelatty’s statement didn’t directly address Trump’s remarks, he expressed his country’s support for the “legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people” and called for the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Feb. 5, 6:30 a.m. ESTAmid the international condemnation, Trump’s proposal drew support from far-right members of Israel’s ruling coalition government. The country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, hailed the proposal as the “the true answer” to the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and added “Those responsible for the horrific massacre on our land will face the permanent loss of their own.”
Feb. 5, 5:30 a.m. ESTSeveral key U.S. allies, including the U.K., France, Germany and Australia have also dismissed the suggestion to relocate Palestinians while reaffirming their support for a two-state solution.
Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, U.K. Foreign Minister David Lammy said: “We’ve always been clear in our belief that we must see two states. We must see Palestinians live and prosper in their homelands in Gaza and the West Bank.”
The French Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying it opposes “any forced displacement of the Palestinian population of Gaza, which would constitute a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians.”
The statement added that France will “continue to push for the implementation of the two-state solution, the only thing that can guarantee long-term peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians.”
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his country “supports, on a bipartisan basis, a two-state solution in the Middle East,” but stopped short of directly commenting on Trump’s remarks saying: “I’ve said before that I don’t intend to have a running commentary on the president of the United States’ statements.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said: “A displacement of the Palestinian civilian population from Gaza would not just be unacceptable and against international law. This would also lead to new suffering and new hatred…There must be no solution over the heads of the Palestinians.”
February 5, 5:00 a. m. , Turbish Oriental Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan rejected Trump’s proposal saying that any plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza is “unacceptable” and even that such a thing is an “incorrect” matrix
On February 5 at 4:30 a. m. , in addition, the newspaper of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China on Wednesday, the spokesman for Lin, Jian, said: “We oppose forced displacement and the relocation of the population to Gaza and we hope that all parties participate take the cessation.
On February 5 at 4:10 a. m. , Esthussein al-Sheikh, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (considered by many to be the successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas) commented on X that the Palestinian leadership “affects its position of the Company that any position of the company that -The State Solution, in accordance with legitimacy and the law, it is the guarantee of security, stability and peace.
Add that the Palestinian leadership rejected “all calls for the displacement of the other Palestinian people of their homeland. We were born here, we live here and we will remain here. “
February 5, 4:00 a. m. The Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Arabia Estsaudi issued a rejection of “any infraction of the valid rights of the other Palestinians, either through Israeli Agreement policies, annexation of land or tries to displace the other Palestinian people of their land “
The added position that the Saudi government’s position was “unwavering. . . non-negotiable and not subject to compromise” and said that the de facto leader, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, under pressure that Saudi Arabia does not identify relations with Israel without the status quo of an “independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. “
February 5, 3:15 a. m. , EastScotland Prime politician to make such a statement. . There is no express definition of ethnic cleaning under the United Nations, the organization refers to a report that describes it as “a specific policy designed through an ethnic or devout organization to be suppressed through the violent and inspiring terrorist means Civil population of ethnic or devotee organization in safe geographical areas “.
Feb. 4, 8:00 p.m. ESTTrump said “we’ll own it” when discussing the future of Gaza, and suggested the U.S. could dispose of active bombs still in the area, “level the site” and “create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing” for “the people of the area,” but it is unclear what people he was referring to.
The president also said Gaza should “not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people,” suggesting Palestinians from Gaza should be relocated to other countries.
The president, who made the comments at a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, added the U.S. would take up a “long-term ownership position” of Gaza, though he did not answer a question about what legal standing would allow the U.S. to take over the region.
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Trump’s comments were produced only a few hours after he told the White House journalists that the Palestinians should be reappeared in Jordan, Egypt or other countries and withdrew Gaza as a “demolition site” (Jordan and Egypt have rejected the idea of the Palestinian restart of Gaza). Trump supplied more main points in his “economic development” proposed in Gaza and specified who would obtain advantages of the “unlimited number of works” that he said he would produce.
Paul O’Brien, the executive director at Amnesty International US, tweeted that: “Removing all Palestinians from Gaza is tantamount to destroying them as a people. Gaza is their home. Gaza’s death & destruction is a result of the gov of Israel killing civilians by the thousands, often with US bombs.” Council on American-Islamic Relations’ National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: “If the Palestinian people were ever somehow forcibly expelled from Gaza, this crime against humanity would complete the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians on their own land, spark widespread conflict, put the final nail in the coffin of international law, and permanently scar our nation’s international image.”
“I think the prospect of the Gaza Strip is incredible,” Trump said of the region’s long run, calling it the “Riviera du Middle East. “
Trump excluded the sending of American troops to Gaza when he asked. “If necessary, it will take charge,” he said.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor, said last year during the conflict in Gaza that the area’s waterfront property “could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods.”
Trump said Gaza is “not a living position for people” and referenced the general destruction in the region without directly attacking Israel’s army crusade. The president proposed Palestinian resettlement in neighboring countries — Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have resisted plans aimed at getting refugees out of Gaza. The five countries have put the tension on a two-state solution, adding the creation of a Palestinian state. In addition to Gaza, Trump showed up to do jobs like Greenland, the Panama Canal and the Canada component of the United States.
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