The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, responded on Wednesday to the proposal of US President Donald Trump to expel the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries recalling that “all deportation or forced transfer of people from people from An occupied territory is strictly prohibited. ”
“International law is very clear, self -determination is a fundamental principle and must be protected by all states, as the International Court of Justice has recently stressed,” Türk said in a written message in response to an EFE question. “The suffering of people in the occupied Palestinian territory and in Israel has been unbearable, we must enter a new phase to guarantee the peace and security of Palestinians and Israelis on the basis of dignity and equality,” he adds.
Türk insists on this regard by continuing with the successive phases of the current high fire, in order to free all the hostages and prisoners arbitrarily detained, “and end the war to rebuild Gaza with complete respect for international humanitarian law and the human rights ”.
Trump's words, which if it is characterized by something is for their high -up statements, have raised a dust on the global scene. Throughout Wednesday, numerous statements of conviction of the international community have occurred, which has reacted almost unanimously – with the exception of Israel and a handful of countries – rejecting the plans and defending the solution of the two states. Many voices have recalled that expelling the Palestinians would be contrary to international law.
The president of the National Palestinian Authority (ANP), Mahmud Abás, has opposed Wednesday to Trump's proposal, remembering that Gaza is “integral part” of the Palestinian state. Before, Hamas was the first to react to the statement of the White House tenant. “We consider them a recipe to create chaos and tension in the region,” said Sami Abu Zuhri, a high leader of the Palestinian group.
Trump had already suggested the idea of ”cleaning” Gaza. “We should simply clean all this,” he said at the end of January, pointing to Egypt and Jordan as possible host countries. Both US regional allies and Arab neighbors of Israel – and signed by the first peace treaties with the Hebrew State – have rejected that possibility, which has been denounced as a call to ethnic cleaning and forced displacement of about two million Gazati.
Cairo has said that he believes in the importance of rebuilding the Gaza Strip, but “without the Palestinians abandoning” the Palestinian enclave, as explained by the Foreign Minister of Egypt, who already rejected in a letter that he sent to the Secretary of State of the United States, the displacement of the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip together with the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates (EAU), Catar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as reported on Tuesday an Arab diplomatic source to Efe. For his part, King Abdullah of Jordan has said that he rejects any attempt to annex land and move to the Palestinians, reports Reuters.
Saudi Arabia has stressed that it will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel if there is no Palestinian independent state and also “firmly” opposes any violation of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including “attempts to displace them from their land.” One of the great objectives pursued Trump in this second term is to achieve an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia for the restoration of diplomatic relations.
From Spain, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has rejected on Wednesday the plans of the US president and added that “the Gazati have to know that Spain will support them.” “Gaza is the land of the Gazati Palestinians, they must continue in Gaza because Gaza is part of the future Palestinian state for which Spain bets,” said the Spanish minister.
Like Spain, several countries of the European Union have also expressed their rejection. France has insisted that any “forced displacement” of the Palestinians of Gaza would be a “serious violation” of international law, while Germany has recalled that the enclave “belongs to the Palestinians.” “One thing is clear: Gaza belongs – like the West and East Jerusalem – to the Palestinians and the Palestinians. They are the starting point for a future Palestinian state, ”said Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock, who has assured that expels the Palestinians of Gaza would not only be” unacceptable “and contrary to international law, but also lead” to ” more suffering and new hate. ”
The Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, has said that the plan is “difficult to implement”, while the Irish government has reiterated that the solution of the two states is the only way, while qualifying as “worrying” the proposal of the US president. For his part, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, has assured that the Palestinians “return home” in Gaza and rebuild their community on the way to a solution of two states.
China has also shown its opposition to the proposal and reiterated its defense of the solution of the two states for the Palestinian-Israeli issue. The Kremlin, meanwhile, has refrained from criticizing Trump's proposal.
The “Riviera de Oriente Middle”
Trump said Tuesday, at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu, that the United States will take control “of the Gaza Strip in the long term and rebuild it, making it the new one, he said,“ Riviera de Oriente Medium ”, after permanently resetting the Palestinians in other countries. In relation to the idea that the Palestinians leave their land, he said: “In their place, they can occupy a whole beautiful area with houses and security, and they can live their lives in peace and harmony,” he said to a smiling Netanyahu.
The announcement of the US president has not only been the most explicit endorsement he has done in favor of the ethnic cleaning that Israel wants to carry out in Palestine, but it involves active support from the United States to the plan.
Trump also made use of the greatest possible euphemism to refer to the massacre perpetuated by Israel the last 15 months of war on Gaza, saying that the strip has been “an unfortunate place.” Constantly, the president spoke of Gaza as a “hole of hell”, where the Palestinians cannot continue to live as if the cause were something inevitable, similar to a natural catastrophe, and not a consequence of the military action of Tel Aviv and the ruler who remained Complacement by his side.
“We should go to other interested countries with a humanitarian approach, and there are many who want to do this, to build various areas that will finally be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending death, destruction and , frankly, bad luck, ”Trump insisted. Thus, he added, “they can occupy a beautiful area with homes and security, and can live in peace and harmony. Instead of going back again and returning to the strip. ”
Asked about which authority, he thinks “possessing” Gaza, replied: “I see a long -term property position and I think it will bring great stability to that part of the Middle East, and perhaps to every Middle East. And all the people I have spoken with, this has not been a light decision, all the people with whom I have spoken love the idea that the United States possesses that land, develops and believes thousands of jobs with something that It will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know. ”
“We will appropriate [de Gaza] And we will be responsible for dismantling all dangerous bombs without detonating and other weapons in the territory, leveling the land, eliminating the destroyed buildings, paving it, creating economic development that provides an unlimited amount of jobs and homes for the people of the area, make A genuine job to achieve something different, ”Trump added.
Some analysts have pointed out that Trump's plans are not credible and there are those who speculate that it is a negotiating tactic, although there are also experts who are concerned that the implicit threat of ethnic cleaning with US cooperation is ” very real ”.
With EFE information