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We know there is a lot of trauma with the Palestinian side when it comes to displacement. However, again, it’s too early to talk about this, because we don’t know how this war will end,
The key question is whether Saudi Arabia will condition its deal with the US and normalisation with Israel to abandoning this plan, not just saying they support Palestinians’ right to self-determination,
Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, told Al Jazeera I think you’ll see in the coming weeks – when Trump starts climbing down the tree, when things sober up – he’ll tell the Saudis ‘you need to come forward and stop making conditions about the Palestinian state’,
His Majesty King Abdullah II stresses the need to put a stop to [Israeli] settlement expansion, expressing rejection of any attempts to annex land and displace the Palestinians.”
Jordan’s royal court said in a statement There is no country that will have greater say in what goes on in Israel and Palestine moving forward than Saudi Arabia. And there is no country that Israel wants to normalise relations with more than Saudi Arabia,
The calculus would be, ‘OK, you don’t want me to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, you don’t want me to send American forces to kick them out and take over that piece of land? OK, I won’t do these things, but what are you going to give me in return?
It is crucial that we move towards the next phase of the ceasefire, to release all hostages and arbitrarily detained prisoners, end the war and reconstruct Gaza, with full respect for international humanitarian law and international human rights law,
The right to self-determination is a fundamental principle of international law and must be protected by all states, as the International Court of Justice recently underlined afresh,
We are sticking to our policy: no displacement of populations, the search for a temporary cease-fire toward a peace process and a two-state solution,
the French government spokesperson added We will not allow the rights of our people, for which we have struggled for decades and made great sacrifices to achieve, to be infringed upon,
said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a statement The civilian population of Gaza must not be displaced and Gaza must not be permanently occupied or resettled,
Germany’s Baerbock said Wednesday Trump can go to hell, with his ideas, with his money, and with his beliefs. We are going nowhere. We are not some of his assets,
Samir Abu Basil, 40, a father of five from Gaza City, told Reuters The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative,
Where would Palestinians live? This is something incomprehensible to any human being,
Lula said in an interview with local radio stations It absolutely is not for me to provide a running commentary on Donald Trump’s views on this situation.”
Reed told Times Radio in a follow-up interview Wednesday The Palestinian civilians have been through a living nightmare for the last 14 months,
Reed, the environment secretary, told Sky News We have an opportunity to do something phenomenal,
Trump said of Gaza’s future I can happily tell you what the UK government's position is, and that is that Palestinian civilians must be able to return to their homes and rebuild their lives."
But Environment Secretary Steve Reed said Instead of holding the Zionist occupation accountable for the crime of genocide and displacement, it is being rewarded, not punished,
the militant group said in a statement Why on earth would we abandon decades of well-established humanitarian programmes around the world, and now launch into one of the world’s greatest humanitarian challenges?”
