Trump resettlemnt plan is a non-starter….
And if he keeps it up?
The release of more hostages just could have problem’s hostage families worry….
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday “welcomed Mr. Trump’s bold plan.”
“I instructed the IDF to prepare a plan that will allow any resident of Gaza who is interested to leave to any place in the world that agrees to accept them,” Katz said in a statement. “The plan will include options for exit at land crossings as well as special arrangements for exit by sea and air.”
Palestinians and Israeli hostage families react to Trump’s plan
Mr. Trump’s announcement drew immediate condemnation from Palestinian civilians and from Hamas, which warned it could threaten the fragile Gaza ceasefire agreement. It also worried some Israeli hostage family members….
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Hamas condemned Mr. Trump’s plan, calling it “a crime against humanity, and a reinforcement of the law of the jungle at the international level.”
The U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group said it was demanding “urgent regional and international action to put an end to these malicious plans, because any attempts to implement such plans will destabilize security in the region and beyond.”…
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Saudi Arabia quickly said it would not reestablish ties with Israel — a bilateral relationship that Mr. Trump has long hoped to foster — without the creation of a Palestinian state.
“Saudi Arabia rejects any attempts to displace the Palestinians from their land,” Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday. “Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has affirmed the kingdom’s position in ‘a clear and explicit manner’ that does not allow…
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The White House has since tried to temper parts of Trump’s declaration, which drew condemnation from U.S. foes and allies alike.
Here’s what else to know
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Senators from both parties in Washington Thursday, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York).
- U.N. Secretary General António Guterres denounced “any form of ethnic cleansing” in Gaza in remarks Wednesday on Palestinian rights that did not directly mention Trump’s proposal. “In the search for solutions, we must not make the problem worse,” he said.
- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Thursday that Israel had withdrawn from the U.N. Human Rights Council, after a similar decision this week by the United States. Netanyahu has accused the council, which promotes human rights and monitors abuses, of having a “blatant anti-Israel obsession.”
- An Israeli reserve soldier has been sentenced to seven months in prison for abusing detainees at a notorious Israeli facility holding Palestinians from Gaza, the Israeli military saidThursday. The soldier, Israel Hajbi, was found guilty of beating blindfolded and handcuffed detainees at the Sde Teiman base using his fists and weapons in several incidents. A number of reservists were detained last summer over allegations of abuse, after months of international pressure and domestic legal scrutiny of the detention center’s conditions….
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Trump hard of hearing the Loud ‘NO’ on his Gaza fantasy ?
Trump first floated the proposal Tuesday, during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A day later, the White House walked back some elements of the plan, saying Palestinians would be displaced temporarily rather than permanently.
Trump’s post Thursday added little detail to the proposal, while underscoring his focus on Gaza as primarily a real estate challenge.
Trump wrote that Gaza “would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting.” The United States, he added, would work with “great development teams” to construct “what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth!”
Palestinians “would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities” in the region, he wrote, without saying whether such a displacement would be permanent.
No Arab state has publicly agreed to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Egypt and Jordan have explicitly warned against attempts to expel Palestinians to their countries.
“No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed!” Trump added….
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Israeli military Ops in the West Bank continue….
The Israeli military and settlers “have increased the use of extreme physical violence” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, according to a report from Doctors Without Borders, as Israel continues weeks-long military operations that have displaced thousands in several parts of the West Bank.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported Thursday that 25 people have been killed in the 17 days since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a major military operation against militants in the restive Jenin refugee camp. Israeli forces have destroyed 180 homes, cut off basic services in many areas and besieged a hospital, Wafa said.
The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that its troops killed about 55 militants and arrested 380 people during counterterrorism operations in the West Bank in January. It said they would continue “to ensure the security of Israeli citizens.”….
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Palestrininas just want Israel to stop bombing Gaza….
So they CAN rebuild ‘Their’ land…
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reacted with a mix of fear, frustration and fatigue to President Donald Trump’s expansive but vague proposal for the United States to “take over” the enclave — a plan that promised reconstruction but that many residents feared would result in the worst scenario: their forced expulsion.
No one seemed clear on what he intended. But the perception, at least, was that the plan was unworkable, threatening to violate the rights of Gaza’s residents while offering no immediate solution to the pressing needs of the territory’s besieged 2.2 million people.
“We want Trump to pressure Netanyahu to stop this war, not to talk about deportation and suffocate the Palestinians more,” Amjad al-Shawa, the head of the Palestinian nongovernmental network in Gaza, said in a phone interview.
Trump’s proposal was “shocking,” he said. “We own this land,” he added. “It’s not a business area. The main business is to think how to keep people here.”
Trump’s proposal — void of detail — nonetheless touched a nerve at the heart of the Palestinian experience, shaped by the Nakba, the Arabic word for catastrophe, referring to the forced dispossession of Palestinians from their former homes in Israel in 1948.
The trauma of that experience has surfaced again and again over the past 16 months, as Gaza’s residents have been displaced repeatedly during Israel’s destructive war against Hamas. In interviews, some said they would rather leave Gaza, given the widespread and inescapable devastation — but that the decision was theirs, not Trump’s, to make….
Feb 6, 2025 – ISW Press
Many of the most prominent Iraqi Sunni political parties have emphasized the need for political action to achieve long-standing Sunni political demands ahead of the Iraqi parliamentary elections in October 2025.
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