People will
have ‘no alternative’ but to leave territory after destruction left by Israel,
US president said in Fox interview
On Sunday,
the UN’s top investigator on human rights, Navi Pillay, told Politico, a news
website, that Trump’s plan for the “forcible displacement of an occupied group
is an international crime, and amounts to ethnic cleansing”.
Andrew Roth
in Washington
Mon 10 Feb
2025 16.26 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-buy-gaza-plan
Donald Trump
has said that his plan to “take over Gaza” would not include a right of return
for the more than 2 million Palestinians that he has said have “no alternative”
but to leave because of the destruction left by Israel’s military campaign.
The remarks
are the latest effective endorsement of ethnic cleansing by the US president,
who announced his plan last week during a summit with the Israeli prime
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the outrage of the Arab world and the surprise
of even his closest aides.
In the
interview with Fox’s Bret Baier, Trump said that he would “own” the Gaza Strip
and declared it would be a “real estate development for the future”.
At the same
time, he continued to endorse a plan for the Palestinians to be resettled in
Egypt and Jordan, a plan that both countries have rejected and the region’s
largest Arab states have declared is a non-starter.
Trump said
he would build up to six new sites for Palestinians to live outside Gaza, in
effect permanent refugee camps underwritten by the US president.
Asked if
Palestinians would have the right to return to Gaza, Trump told Baier: “No,
they wouldn’t, because they’re going to have much better housing.
“Could be
five, six, could be two,” he said. “But we’ll build safe communities, a little
bit away from where they are, where all of this danger is.
“In other
words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them because if they
have to return now, it’ll be years before you could ever – it’s not habitable,”
he said.
No serious
discussions have so far taken place in the Pentagon or the state department
regarding how the US could legally or logistically handle the task proposed by
Trump.
But the
announcement was welcomed by Israel’s far-right settler movement, as well as
their evangelical allies in the US who have endorsed the annexation of the Gaza
Strip and other occupied Palestinian territories, including the West Bank.
“In the
meantime, I would own this,” Trump said of Gaza. “Think of it as a real estate
development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land. No big money
spent.”
On Sunday,
the UN’s top investigator on human rights, Navi Pillay, told Politico, a news
website, that Trump’s plan for the “forcible displacement of an occupied group
is an international crime, and amounts to ethnic cleansing”.
“There is no
way under the law that Trump could carry out the threat to dislocate
Palestinians from their land,” Pillay said.
More than
1.5 million Palestinians and their descendants who lost their homes during the
1948 Arab–Israeli war currently live in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the
Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem.
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