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President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States to take over Gaza have met anger and dismay throughout the Arab world, and generated fears of rekindling conflicts in the region.
On Tuesday night, the president of the United States said that the United States should “take charge” of the devastated Gaza Strip, whose stripes are in ruins after more than a year of war with Israel, and that the Palestinian population of 2.2 million should be resettled.
Palestinian leaders said Wednesday that they would challenge any attempt to get them out of their lands.
A senior leader in the Islamist militant group and the ruling power of Gaza, Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, said that Gaza’s people “would not allow these plans to pass”, and called Trump’s comments a “recipe to create chaos and tension in the region “.
Hussein al-Sheikh, general secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said that the Palestinian leadership was still committed to a solution of two states and “affirms his rejection of all the calls to the displacement of the Palestinian people of their homeland.”
The PLO is linked to the Palestinian authority, which exercises a limited self -gobnose in parts of the West Bank and is seen by international diplomats as a potential role in the post -war gaza government.
But Arab states have long rejected any additional expulsion from the Palestinians. The exodus of the Palestinians during the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, known by the Palestinians such as Nakba or Catastrophe, created waves of displacement in neighboring countries and caused years of instability in the region.
Neighbor Jordan and Egypt, who have not yet responded to Trump’s comments, had previously rejected Trump’s suggestion that they should accept displaced Palestinian refugees.
Trump’s intention to assure Gaza with American soldiers will also resurface the memories of the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq, which further destabilized the region and sullized the reputation of the United States in the Arab world.
Trump’s intervention also threatens to undermine his goal of doing more to normalize relations between Israel and Arab states in the region.
Saudi Arabia, seen as Trump’s closest ally in the oil -rich region in the Gulf, on Wednesday rejected the displacement of the Palestinians and said he would not hold peace conversations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state was created.
After the normalization conversations between Israel and the Gulf of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during their first term, Trump was expected Trump between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
But Israel’s war against Gaza, caused by Hamas in October 2023, hardened Riad’s attitude towards Israel and has seen him renew a commitment to an independent Palestinian state.
The heir prince of Saudi Arabia and de facto leader Mohammed Bin Salman has previously labeled the fierce assault of Israel, who has killed some 47,000 people in Gaza, as a “genocide.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom said that Saudi Arabia “will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel” without an independent Palestinian state and emphasized that this position was not “not negotiable and not subject to commitments.”
