{"id":2132,"date":"2025-02-08T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T09:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2025-02-08T09:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T09:27:58","slug":"trumps-plan-to-take-over-gaza-is-ethnic-cleansing-hamas-political-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trumps-plan-to-take-over-gaza-is-ethnic-cleansing-hamas-political-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s plan to take over Gaza is \u2018ethnic cleansing\u2019 \u2013 Hamas political chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US president has announced a bid to take over the enclave and relocate its Palestinian population elsewhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to take over Gaza and move the Palestinians out to surrounding Arab countries would amount to \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d<\/em> and a \u201ccrime against humanity,\u201d<\/em> Bassem Naim, head of the Hamas political branch told RT in an exclusive interview on Friday.<\/p>\n

Trump floated the idea of the US owning the enclave on Tuesday at a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He reiterated his previous call to relocate the Palestinians outside of the enclave, at the expense of neighboring states. The US president described his vision of turning Gaza into the \u201cRiviera of the Middle East,\u201d<\/em> after leveling the ruins left by 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

Naim, who currently leads the militant group\u2019s political bureau, stressed that the people of Gaza should choose for themselves where they live. \u201cWe believe that Palestinian people are mature enough to decide for themselves, and they can choose where to live and how to live. This is our land,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

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Netanyahu denies Trump talked about US troops in Gaza<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI think the solution for all this destabilization in the region is to solve the Palestinian cause by giving the Palestinian their genuine right of independence, self-sovereignty, right of return,\u201d<\/em> Naim stressed.<\/p>\n

Palestinians have had to rebuild Gaza numerous times in the aftermath of previous conflicts, he said, adding that refugees are eager to return to the enclave, despite knowing how devastated it is.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s plan to deport the Palestinians and take over Gaza would be a \u201cwar crime,\u201d<\/em> Naim insisted.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a crime against humanity. This is ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump has approached neighboring states Egypt and Jordan, and has been \u201cvery vocal\u201d<\/em> stating that he expects them to take in Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n

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\n READ MORE: <\/span>Israel unveils plans for Gaza deportations: As it happened
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Both Cairo and Amman have firmly rejected any such initiative.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah II underscored his firm rejection of any attempts to displace the Palestinians, the country\u2019s royal court said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\n READ MORE: <\/span>US won\u2019t finance Gaza reconstruction after proposed takeover \u2013 White House
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According to a Thursday press release, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has contacted his counterparts in neighboring Arab states, in an effort to \u201cthwart the US proposal of displacing the Palestinian people out of their territories.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US president has announced a bid to take over the enclave and relocate its Palestinian population elsewhere President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to take over Gaza and move the Palestinians out to surrounding Arab countries would amount to \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d and a \u201ccrime against humanity,\u201d Bassem Naim, head of the Hamas political branch told RT…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}