Trump suggests permanently displacing Palestinians from Gaza

Yasmin Levyisraeli singer

Trump’s Gaza fantasy sends Israeli rightwing pundits into rapturous delirium.”

As Yasmin Levy summarised in Haaretz

I have heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them,

he recently said

Benjamin Netanyahuisraeli Prime Minister

I don’t think they’re going to tell me no.”

Sitting next to Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump suggested

Trump referred to Gaza as a demolition site and said that those who go back there would die … That appears to be an admission that the Israeli offensive has resulted in the destruction of civilian infrastructure to the point where it cannot sustain people,

Lemberg-Pedersen said

It is clear to me that powerful states want to rewrite the laws,

Katselli said

In legal terms, there is no code or international agreement with the words ethnic cleansing,

said Elena Katselli, of the Newcastle University law school

So you have to leave because you have no options, when the alternative would be starvation, for example,

Singer told the Guardian

I was shocked as a scholar, a teacher of international law and as a human being,

said Dr Maria Varaki, a lecturer in international law at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London

We have no norms at all, so all the things that have been achieved since the second world war are threatened,

she said

Forcibly resettling the Palestinians of Gaza would constitute the crime against humanity of deportation or forcible transfer,

said Dill

All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."

The U.N. Charter says

There are no circumstances in which it is permissible to seize territory by force. The argument that it benefits populations there or elsewhere is legally meaningless even if it were factually correct."

Janina Dill, co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and a specialist in international humanitarian law, said

Ultimately, President Trump’s proposal amounts to a blatant rejection of the core tenets of international law that have operated since at least the end of World War II and the adoption of the UN Charter,

said Assistant Professor of International Human Rights Law Michael Becker at Trinity College, Dublin

You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza”,

Trump does this through statements such as

I want to be very clear on this: Gaza is the land of Gazan Palestinians and they must stay in Gaza,

Albares told reporters

Gaza is part of the future Palestinian state Spain supports and has to coexist guaranteeing the Israeli state's prosperity and safety,

he added