President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hamas would either release all hostages held by extremist groups in Gaza by noon Saturday, or offer to cancel the Israel Hama ceasefire and “breaking hell.” I stated.
Trump warned that Israel might want to invalidate him on the issue, saying he might speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
However, in a broad session with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with the state of the last hostage group released by Hamas, and expressed it in an announcement by the extremist group that it would release more.
“As far as I’m concerned, if all the hostages aren’t returned at 12am on Saturday, I think it’s the right time. I’ll cancel it, all bets are off and hell break out. They’ll be on Saturday I think it should be returned by 12:00,” Trump said.
He said he hopes that not a few hostages at once were released, but in large quantities. “We want to get everything back.”
Trump also said Palestinian refugees may withhold aid from Jordan and Egypt if they are migrating from Gaza. He is to meet King Abdullah of Jordan on Tuesday.
Comments came in a day of confusion over Trump’s proposal to buy the US in Gaza after the battle halted.
He said the Palestinians have no right to return to the Gaza Strip under his proposal to redevelop the enclave, and contradicts his own officials who suggested that the Gazas would be relocated temporarily. Ta.
In an excerpt from an interview with Fox News channel Brett Bayer Broadcasting on Monday, Trump added that he believes he can take refuge in Jordan and Egypt. year. “
Asked if Palestinians had the right to return to Gaza, Trump said: “No, it’s not because they have much better housing.”
“I’m talking about creating a permanent place for them,” he said.
After meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, in a shock announcement on February 4th, Trump proposed that Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinians and the US control the seaside enclave, adding that it “Middle East.” It has been redeveloped into the Riviera.
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Trump’s proposal for moving Palestine has been repeatedly rejected by Gaza residents and Arab countries and has been labelled as an ethnic cleansing proposal by rights advocates and the United Nations.
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuri said Trump’s statement that Palestinians would not be able to return to Gaza was “irresponsible.”
“We assert that such a plan can set fire to the area,” he told Reuters on Monday.
Praise for the proposal, Netanyahu suggested that Palestinians would be allowed to return. “They can leave, then they can come back and they can move and come back. But you have to rebuild Gaza,” he said the day after Trump’s announcement. .
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who will leave for a visit to the Middle East at his office later this week, said Thursday that Palestinians will need to “preliminarily live somewhere else” during the reconstruction. Exclude their permanent displacement.
The State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the gap between Rubio and Trump’s recent plans.
Trump’s comments are at risk of collapse after a fragile ceasefire reached last month and Hamas announced on Monday that he would stop releasing Israeli hostages on suspicion of Israeli violations. , a fragile ceasefire will occur.
Israeli Arab neighbours, including Egypt and Jordan, say plans to relocate Palestinians from their land would destabilise the region.
Rubio met Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatti in Washington on Monday. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry told Rubio that Abdelatti had told Rubio that Arab countries support the Palestinians when they rejected Trump’s plans. Cairo fears that Palestinians will be forced across Egypt’s border with Gaza.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said that “two or six communities can be built for Palestinians “a little bit away from where they are and where this danger lies.” “I own this. Think of it as a future property development. It will be beautiful land. There will be no big money spent,” he said.
