Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat al-Resheq said that US president Donald’s latest remarks about taking over Gaza and relocating its residents elsewhere reflect “misperception and deep ignorance about Palestine and the region.”
“Gaza is not a common land for any party to decide to control, but rather it is part of our occupied Palestinian land, so any solution must be based on ending the occupation and fulfilling the Palestinian people’s rights and not on the mentality of a real estate businessman or the mentality of muscle and domination,” Resheq said on Wednesday.
Resheq added that Trump’s remarks on Gaza “vindicated further the unlimited US bias in favor of the Israeli occupation regime and the Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people and their legitimate rights.”
The Hamas official affirmed that the Palestinian people and their leaders, backed by their Arab and Islamic nations and the world’s free people, would frustrate all the displacement plans targeting them.
In another statement, the Hamas Movement condemned in the strongest terms Trump’s remarks on Gaza, describing them as “hostile to the Palestinian people and their national cause.”
Hamas said that such remarks by Trump would “not serve regional stability” and would only “pour fuel on the fire.”
“We, alongside our Palestinian people and national leaders, will never allow any country in the world to occupy our land or impose guardianship over our great people whose blood flowed like rivers in order to liberate our land from the occupation and establish our Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,” Hamas said.
Hamas called on the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the UN to convene urgent meetings to take firm and historic positions that preserve the Palestinian people’s national rights.
In a joint news conference with the Israeli prime minister in the White House on Tuesday, Trump said the US would “take over” and “own” Gaza after resettling Palestinians elsewhere under a redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the Palestinian coastal enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
In a flagrant announcement upending decades of US policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Trump claimed that his administration would spearhead development in Gaza to “supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
