Ayyab Atrawi
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
Well, Trump already signaled clearly many times that he thinks Palestinians should be relocated outside of Gaza. And he says Gaza is now a demolition site, that it's uninhabitable. And this is largely true after nearly 16 months of war and Israeli airstrikes that also killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians, with the U.N.
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
and Gaza's health officials saying at least 10,000 more bodies are buried under that rubble. Now, rather than live in what he called a hellhole, Trump said yesterday the nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza should go elsewhere, other countries.
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
It's really unclear if this is actual policy ideas being formulated or his musings at this point. But Trump, who's an international real estate developer as well, said he envisions the U.S. taking over this coastal enclave long term and turning it into what he called the Riviera of the Middle East.
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
You know, half of those 2 million people in Gaza are children. They need security, stability. They haven't been in school for two years now. There isn't even electricity or running water in Gaza. So yeah, some families would leave given this reality. They have said that to us. But also people have lived in Gaza for generations and leaving would mean the end of any hopes for a Palestinian state.
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
And in Israel, expelling Palestinians from Gaza was an idea that had mostly been relegated to the far right corners of Israeli society. You know, Israel's prime minister didn't comment directly on Trump's idea yesterday, but he praised his, quote, willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas. And he said this.
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
So the major Arab states, they don't want Hamas to rule Gaza, but they also don't see mass displacement as a solution either. And certainly publicly, I don't see how they could get behind this. Now, Egypt has made clear it will not accept the forced expulsion of Palestinians. Egypt has called this an injustice that they won't take part in.
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
And Saudi Arabia, one of the countries of great wealth that the president referred to that would be needed to pay for whatever comes next in Gaza, says it rejects attempts to displace Palestinians. They say their position is non-negotiable and that they've made this clear to the Trump administration.