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02/05/2025February 5, 2025
US top diplomat says US stands ready to ‘Make Gaza Beautiful Again’
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to back Trump’s plans for a US takeover of Gaza.
“Gaza MUST BE FREE from Hamas. As @POTUS [US President Donald Trump] shared today, the United States stands ready to lead and Make Gaza Beautiful Again,” Rubio posted on X.
Trump has floated suggestions of Palestinian displacement since January 25 but has not offered much more detail.
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Trump’s Gaza suggestion a ‘recipe for chaos and tension,’ Hamas says
The unsurprisingly says it rejects Trump’s suggestion that Palestinians should leave the Gaza Strip.
“We reject Trump’s statements in which he said that the residents of the Gaza Strip have no choice but to leave,” Hamas said in a statement.
It added that the suggestions are “a recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region.”
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri also warned that such actions could “ignite the region.”
Trump’s remarks about his desire to control Gaza are “ridiculous and absurd,” Abu Zuhri told Reuters news agency.
Hamas, which operates in Gaza, is considered a terrorist group by the US, Germany and several other countries.
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Saudi Arabia rejects any attempts to displace Palestinians
says it rejects any attempts to displace the Palestinians from their land and that this stance is not negotiable.
In a sharply worded statement issued early Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said their long call for an independent Palestinian state was a “firm, steadfast and unwavering position.”
“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia also stresses … its absolute rejection of infringement on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, whether through Israeli settlement policies, annexation of Palestinian lands or efforts to displace the Palestinian people from their land,” the statement said.
The statement was a reaction to Tuesday’s announcement by US President , who suggested the after the Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and develop it economically.
Some 2 million people live in the Gaza Strip, much of which has been destroyed after Israel’s war on Hamas. Israel’s operations against Gaza came after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks by Hamas on Israel.
Saudi Arabia has supported the Palestinians having an independent state comprised of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with east Jerusalem as their capital.
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