US backtracks on Donald Trump's proposal to take over Gaza amid global backlash
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The president has made no promise to send US troops. The White House said any transfer of Gaza residents would be temporary. Marco Rubio
Thursday, February 6, 2025
London (News / Latest News - International Press Agency. 06 February 2025) The US administration appears to be backing down after an uproar over President Donald Trump’s proposal to annex Gaza. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said any transfer of Gaza residents would be temporary, while the White House insisted there was no promise to send US troops.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the United Nations has warned against genocide in the Palestinian territory, while the Palestinians, Arab governments and world leaders have also criticized the US president’s proposal, but Trump stressed that everyone likes the plan, which he announced during a press conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
While detailing how the US could evict more than 2 million Palestinians or take control of the war-torn territory, Trump announced that the US would occupy the Gaza Strip and "we will build here, we will own it." Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the idea was not presented with hostile intent and called it a generous gesture, saying the reconstruction was an offer to take responsibility for overseeing it. White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt later said the US would not provide funding for Gaza's reconstruction after more than 15 months of conflict between its ally Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
Lewett said that US involvement does not mean that troops will be deployed or that US taxpayers will finance the effort. Meanwhile, the United Nations has warned that the forced eviction of Palestinians in Gaza would amount to genocide. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the Palestinian people should have the right to live on their land as ordinary people. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric also said that the forced eviction of any people is tantamount to genocide. French President Emmanuel Macron and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called the forced eviction of Palestinians a serious violation of international law, while Jordan's King Abdullah II rejected any attempt to occupy Palestinian land and displace people.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed that relations with Saudi Arabia could return to normal, but Riyadh made it clear that it would not recognize Israel without a Palestinian state and rejected any forced evictions. The European Union said Gaza was an integral part of a future Palestinian state. The United Arab Emirates and China also opposed the forced evictions of Palestinians and urged a two-state solution. US official Levitt said that Trump's plan was about temporarily evacuating Palestinians from Gaza, but Palestinian officials, Arab leaders and human rights groups rejected the proposal as racist and provocative. According to Human Rights Watch, the proposal would make the US directly complicit in war crimes.
According to Human Rights Watch, this is the result of Israel's deliberate policy of destroying buildings and infrastructure to make Gaza uninhabitable, which it has implemented over the course of a year. It should be noted that more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks, the majority of whom are civilians. The United Nations considers these figures to be reliable.
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