People in Gaza defiant: ‘We are staying on this land’
Even though hundreds of thousands of lives have been shattered during Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestinians have flatly rejected Trump’s Israeli-backed plan to displace its 2.1 million people.
“This is our land. Who would we leave it to? Where would we go?” Mansour Abu Al-Khaier, a technician, told Reuters.
Saed, 27, said he woke up troubled at the news that Trump and Netanyahu are again floating the displacement idea. “We have the right to leave of our own free will and visit other countries, but we reject the plan of displacement as Palestinians,” Saed said.
Abu Samir el-Fakaawi promised: “I will not leave Gaza. This is my country.”
He added: “Our children who were martyred in the war are buried here. Our families. Our friends. Our cousins. We are all buried here. Whether Trump or Netanyahu or anyone else likes it or not, we are staying on this land.”
Israel envisions international help managing Gaza’s ethnic cleansing
Details continue to emerge on the plan presented by Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz on the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
The Haaretz newspaper, quoting an unnamed Israeli source, reported the plan is “to move all Gazan civilians to the south, to a large tent city in Rafah, where they will have hospitals and abundant food”.
It also proposes a “humanitarian zone” be established under “the remote security control of the Israeli army, to be managed by international or local entities under Israeli auspices”.
The source said Prime Minister Netanyahu sees a possibility that countries such as the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia could intervene later to manage the “humanitarian city”.
