Thursday Trump defended his proposal for the United States to take care of the post -war and resetty Gaza of his Palestinian residents, but he underlined that he would not have deployed US troops in the enclave, as the Israeli defense minister announced that he had ordered To the military to draw up A. plan to allow people to go voluntarily.
The developments are added to a whirlwind of confusion on the proposal of Mr. Trump to “take” the Gaza strip and for the approximately two million Palestinians who live there to move elsewhere. The deportation or forced transfer of a civilian population is a violation of international humanitarian law, a war crime and a crime against humanity, experts say. Mr. Trump’s plan has already caused a furious opposition all over the world, with some critics who compare it to ethnic cleaning.
It is far from clear whether and how the proposal would have been performed, and Mr. Trump’s comments did not solve some of the greatest questions about it, included where the Israeli and American authorities hoped that Gazas will go, how many people who imagined would actually leave Willingly and who would govern and ensure the enclave.
Mr. Trump’s proposal was not controlled by the president’s best councilors and some Trump helperss tried to soften the president’s ideas on Wednesday evening. But in a post on social media on the early morning, Trump doubled, saying that the United States and his partners were ready to build “one of the largest and most spectacular developments” on the Gaza planet once Israel yielded control there.
“The Gaza strip would have been delivered in the United States by Israel to the conclusion of the fighting”, wrote Trump on Truth Social, adding that the Palestinians would already be re -adapted in much safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern houses, in the region. “
By seeming to respond to the concerns about sending troops to Gaza, Mr. Trump insisted on the fact that there would be no need for the US soldiers to take sides: “No soldier from the United States would be necessary! Stability for the Region would reign !!! “
Security in Gaza would be a great challenge. A 15 -month insurrection of Palestinian militant groups led by Hamas has exceeded the offensive of Israel to emerge as the de factorans of the encycling, at least for now.
The Israeli government did not immediately comment on Trump’s latest observations. Much of the international community considers Gaza an integral part of a future Palestinian state and any attempt by Israel to “deliver” the enclave to the United States without the consent of its residents would be challenged.
But the plan evoked the celebration of the Israeli far right, many of whom have for some time promoted what they call “voluntary emigration” as a solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.
Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, praised Mr. Trump’s proposal, saying that he could “allow a large population to Gaza to leave for various places in the world”. He announced that he was ordering the military to elaborate concrete plans for Gazan who wanted to do it to leave.
Katz said that his plan would include “exit options through terrestrial crossings, as well as special agreements for the departure by sea and air”. He did not mention if they would have been authorized to return home after the war.
In Gaza devastated, many promised to remain despite the hunger, the cold and the fear of renewing the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Both parties are observing a six-week-weeks-the first phase of an agreement of ceased the fire mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States-and there is no guarantee for how long it will remain.
Many modern wars have generated waves of refugees. But Gazas, unusually, was mostly trapped inside the Palestinian Encyclist with little way out. Many resisted starting: the mass displacement of their parents and grandparents in the wars surrounding the 1948 Israeli plant remains one of their greatest collective traumas.
Neighborhoods such as Egypt and Jordan have also shown little interest in taking them into mass, treating them as an economic burden and a source of potential internal upheavals.
More than 100,000 people came out in the first months of war before Israel took control of the border with Egypt, closing the door. This left about two million still in the Gaza Strip, many of which moved and lived in curtains.
In the weeks following October 7, 2023 led by Hamas, the attack turned on the war, helpers to Prime Minister Benjamin has put pressure on his allies, including the United States and Great Britain, to put pressure on Egypt to admit hundreds thousands of Gazan civilians.
The allies of Israel largely rejected the proposal, in part because they feared that the Israeli authorities would not allow Gazan to return home after the war. The senior members of the Durayahu’s hard line of coalition publicly asked Israel to govern the territory indefinitely and build Jewish settlements there.
During an interview with Fox News on Wednesday evening, Netanyahu said that the Palestinians could “move and return” if necessary. “The real idea of allowing Gazas who want to leave – I mean, what’s wrong?” he said. “They can leave, they can then come back.”
Katz, the Israeli defense minister, argued that countries like Spain and Norway, who were critical of the Israeli conduct of the war in Gaza, were obliged to take them otherwise “their hypocrisy would have been exposed”.
José Manuel Albares, Foreign Minister of Spain, seemed to reject the idea in an interview with the public broadcaster of the country on Thursday morning.
“The land of Gazas is Gaza and Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state,” said Albares.
Erica L. Green Reports contributed by Washington e Myra Noveck from Jerusalem.