The Palestinian terrorist group whose assault on Israel launched the warfare in Gaza is now calling President Donald Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to rebuild the territory a “recipe for creating chaos and stress within the area.”
Trump despatched shockwaves all through the Center East after asserting final evening that the U.S. will “take over the Gaza Strip,” degree it and rebuild the world.
“As an alternative of holding the Zionist occupation accountable for the crime of genocide and displacement, it’s being rewarded, not punished,” Hamas informed the Related Press Wednesday.
Hamas’ assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, led to the Israeli army coming into the Gaza Strip of their mission to eradicate the Palestinian terrorist group. Consequently, the battle has rendered a lot of the territory uninhabitable. The U.N. estimated late final yr that 1.9 million folks – round 90% of Gaza’s inhabitants – have been internally displaced.
SAUDI ARABIA CONTRADICTS TRUMP, VOWS NO TIES WITH ISRAEL WITHOUT CREATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas says Trump’s plan for the U.S. to rebuild Gaza is a “recipe for creating chaos and stress within the area.” (AP/Alex Brandon/Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto by way of Getty Pictures)
Hamas added to the AP that Trump’s plan is a “recipe for creating chaos and stress within the area.”
“What President Trump acknowledged about his intention to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip exterior it and america’ management over the Strip by pressure is against the law in opposition to humanity,” a senior Hamas official additionally informed Fox Information on Wednesday.
“We demand that the mediators, particularly america, oblige the occupation to implement the ceasefire settlement in its three levels with out procrastination or manipulation, as we’re dedicated to implementing the settlement so long as the occupation commits to it, and any manipulation in implementing the settlement could trigger it to break down,” the official added.
THE HISTORY OF GAZA AMID TRUMP’S PLAN TO REBUILD ENCLAVE
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet on the White Home on Tuesday, Feb. 4. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)
Trump introduced in a joint press convention with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the White Home Tuesday that “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we’ll do a job with it, too,”
“We’ll personal it and be chargeable for dismantling all the harmful, unexplored bombs and different weapons on the positioning,” he continued.
“Stage the positioning and eliminate the destroyed buildings, degree it out, create an financial improvement that may provide limitless numbers of jobs and housing for the folks of the world,” Trump additionally mentioned. “Do an actual job. Do one thing completely different. Simply cannot return. In case you return, it is going to find yourself the identical manner it has for 100 years.”
Fox Information’ Chief Overseas Correspondent Trey Yingst mentioned the timing of Trump’s feedback “raises large questions concerning the present ceasefire settlement that’s imagined to see the remaining hostages launched from Gaza.”
“There are dozens of dwelling hostages contained in the Gaza Strip proper now being held by Hamas, the group that’s at present in charge of Gaza. And it could not be stunning if tomorrow, Hamas threatens to step again from the present settlement or places extra stress on the negotiating desk,” Yingst mentioned in a video posted on X final evening.
Tents are arrange among the many rubble of destroyed homes in Beit Lahia, within the northern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 29. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
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“However the timing of those remarks may be very vital remembering that these hostages stay in Hamas captivity and Palestinians being faraway from Gaza has been a pink line not just for Hamas however for regional international locations together with Egypt, Jordan and others because it pertains to the Palestinian folks there,” he added.
Fox Information’ Trey Yingst and Emma Colton contributed to this report.