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I do think he'll take, and I think other countries will take also
When asked how he'd convince Abdullah to take in Palestinians, Trump told reporters last night We clung to our destroyed homes and we clung to the soil of Palestine."
Another woman in Deir al-Balah told Israeli news agency TPS-IL I’m asking Donald Trump himself to relocate us as he suggested. And I’ll be the first one to go,
one young man told the Center for Peace Communications team in Gaza during a camera interview In the end, people will accept reality. They’ll emigrate because they want to live. They want to live in a country that protects and supports them. A country where you can hold your head up high. If our country isn’t looking out for us, where should we go?"
A Gazan man interviewed on-camera by the Center for Peace Communications said I want to leave because there’s no life left here. Life here is gone. I mean, just look around you."
The man described his bleak reality, saying The main drivers seem economic, political, educational, security and concerns about corruption."
I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state. Because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada,
There's practically no building that's livable in the whole thing, on of the whole Gaza Strip. I say we go in, we knock them all down. We just create some — no more Hamas . There's no Hamas there. There's nobody there. We move them into beautiful areas of the Middle East,
Much better – in other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them,
he told Baier on "Special Report." There's nothing to move back into. The place is a demolition site. The remainder will be demolished. Everything's demolished,
We have to recognize, first of all, the massive hypocrisy in saying that Gaza is unlivable, and therefore the Palestinians cannot live there, when it is U.S. weapons and Israel’s actions that made it unlivable in the first place ― in the case of Israel’s actions, at least, with an intent of doing so,
said Josh Paul, co-founder of A New Policy who resigned from the Biden administration over its Gaza policy Palestine is not just an idea – it is a place. It is a homeland to the Palestinian people,
the letter read, including concern over Israel’s ongoing attacks in the occupied West Bank The suffering of millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S.’s unconditional support for Israel throughout is harmful ― not only to millions of Palestinians, but also to Americans, to Israelis, to Arabs throughout the region, to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike,
said FCNL’s Odeliya Matter Forcible displacement, when carried out with an intent to permanently remove a people from a land on the basis of their identity is ethnic cleansing,
the letter stated, citing Article 49(1) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which the U.S. and Israel are both parties to If he decides to move forward on this path, notwithstanding those voices, I think that there will certainly be opportunities for litigation and for public protests and for congressional action and all these sort of things,
The right to return is a fundamental human right enshrined in international law. No president, no foreign leader, no occupying force has the legal authority to strip Palestinians from their right to exist in their own land. We all have to reject this vision and demand justice for the Palestinian people,
said Tariq Habash, A New Policy’s co-founder who was the first Palestinian American to resign from the Biden administration over its Gaza policy If you ask me about the work that we did in the White House, for my critics, what I say is: point to a single decision we made that wasn't in the interest of America."
However, he defended himself in early 2024 in an interview with American news website Axios, saying We will definitely be doing other projects in this region. This region has explosive growth, and that's not stopping anytime soon."
Shortly before the Jeddah deal was announced, Eric Trump told British financial newspaper Financial Times The world's people will be living there,
The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too,