President Donald Trump’s proposal to “clean up” the Gaza Strip and send its inhabitants to countries in the region is “an excellent idea,” a far-right minister in the Israeli government said on Sunday.
“The idea of helping them find other places to start a better life is a great idea. After years of glorifying terrorism, (the Palestinians) will be able to establish a new and beautiful life elsewhere,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a statement.
“For years, politicians have proposed unworkable solutions like land division and the creation of a Palestinian state, which endanger the existence and security of the world’s only Jewish state,” Smotrich added. whose party is essential to the government coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Only original thinking with new solutions will bring a solution of peace and security. I will, with God’s help, work with the Prime Minister and cabinet to ensure there is an operational plan to implement this as soon as possible.”
Mr. Trump on Saturday proposed moving residents of the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan as part of a peace plan to “clean house” in the Palestinian territory.
-The Palestinians “will derail” Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate them to other countries “just as they have derailed all displacement projects (…) for decades, a senior Palestinian official told AFP. Hamas.
“We confirm that our people, with all their support, are capable of rebuilding Gaza,” added Bassem Naïm, member of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamist movement, reached by telephone by AFP.
Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian Islamist movement allied with Hamas in Gaza, also denounced President Trump’s idea on Sunday, judging that his remarks encouraged “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
These “deplorable statements align with the worst aspects of the Zionist far-right agenda and continue the policy of denying the existence (…) of the Palestinian people,” the movement added in a statement, judging that they encourage “the continued perpetration of war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
