Hamas condemns US president Trump’s proposal to expel Palestinians from Gaza as ‘absurd and meaningless’

Palestinian resistance group Hamas has condemned US president Donald Trump’s insistence on expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip as “absurd and meaningless”, amid regional outcry over the proposal.

Last weekend, newly-elected president Trump suggested that Israel should “clean out” Gaza by forcibly resettling Palestinians from there to Egypt and Jordan – a proposal which sparked international and regional outcry and which resulted in outright refusal from Cairo and Amman.

On Thursday, Trump then insisted to reporters that those countries “will do it. They’re going to do it, okay? We do a lot for them, and they’re going to do it”. He reiterated that claim the next day, saying he was “confident” that Egypt and Jordan would take in Palestinians from Gaza.

In a press statement on Saturday, Hamas further condemned the proposal, with senior Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri saying that “plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza are absurd and meaningless”. He asserted that “what the Israeli occupation failed to achieve by force, will not be accomplished through political maneuvers.”

Calling the reported plans “a recipe for further chaos and tension in the region”, Abu Zuhri stated that “the repeated US announcements on displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip under the pretext of its reconstruction reflect a persistent complicity in the crime”.

Source » middleeastmonitor.com