US officials seemed to moderate Donald Trump’s spectacular remarks on the United States of the Gaza Strip.
Washington tries to temper. After the shock statements by Donald Trump, who said he was ready to take the “control” From the Gaza Strip, the White House tried to qualify its words.
The head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio and the spokesperson for the White House Karoline Leavitt argued that the transfer of the Gazaouis would only be “temporary”.
“The only thing the American president Donald Trump has done – very generously, in my opinion – is to offer in the United States the desire to intervene, to clean the debris, to clean (Gaza of all the destruction that On the ground, to clean it of all these unplodced ammunition. Munitions are removed, etc … This is the offer he made “ said Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, interviewed by the American channel Fox News, described the idea of “outstanding” :: “This is the first good idea that I hear. It is a remarkable idea and I think it should be really prosecuted. Examined, pursued and implemented, because I think it will create a different future for everything The world. “
The Minister of Israeli Defense, Israel Katz, has ordered the army to prepare a plan to allow the inhabitants of Gaza to “Leaving voluntarily”after Donald Trump’s statements on a potential displacement of the Palestinians of this territory. The plan will include “From exit to land crossing points as well as special arrangements for outings by sea and air”he added.
The American president also repeated that the inhabitants of Gaza could go to live in Jordan or Egypt, despite the opposition of these countries and the Palestinians themselves.
This proposal was widely criticized by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas rival. “We will not allow the rights of our people to be flouted”he retorted. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres also warned in front of “Any form of ethnic cleaning”while the European Union has rewitted that the “Gaza band was an integral part of a future Palestinian State”.
About 2.1 million Gazaouis live in the 360 km2 enclave, ravaged by months of war. Most of them have lost their accommodation and torube refuge in displaced camps.
