Trump Says No Right of Return for Palestinians in Gaza Under His Plan Egypt has called an emergency Arab summit in response to Trump's repeated calls for the permanent displacement of Gaza's Palestinians by Dave DeCamp February 10, 2025 at 2:56 pm ET CategoriesNewsTagsEgypt, Gaza, Israel, Jordan, Palestine In an interview that aired Monday, President Trump explicitly said Palestinians would not have the right to return to Gaza under his plan for the US to “take over” the territory. When asked by Fox News host Brett Baier if the Palestinians would have the right to return to Gaza, Trump said, “No, they wouldn’t because they’re going to have much better housing. In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them.” The interview was taped on Saturday, and Trump made similar comments the following day while aboard Air Force One. “It’s a big mistake to allow the Palestinians or the people to be living in Gaza to go back yet another time,” he said on Sunday. Palestinians, who were displaced to the south, make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the central Gaza Strip on January 27, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed Trump’s repeated comments that Palestinians would be removed permanently, which means ethnic cleansing, contradict the White House, which said Palestinians would only be “temporarily relocated” during reconstruction. In the interview with Baier, Trump insisted he could make a deal with Jordan and Egypt despite the strong opposition from Arab states and Palestinians themselves. “I think I could make a deal with Jordan, I think I could make a deal with Egypt. You know, we give them billions and billions of dollars a year,” he said. Egypt has announced an emergency Arab summit that will be held on February 27 in response to Trump’s plan. On Sunday, Cairo said that in recent days, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty “made a series of phone calls with several Arab counterparts to mass regional efforts in a bid to thwart the US proposal of displacing the Palestinian people.” Jordan’s King Abdullah arrived in Washington on Monday and is set to hold a meeting with Trump on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Abdullah plans to tell Trump that his plan “to resettle Palestinians from Gaza in Jordan is a recipe for radicalism that will spread chaos through the Middle East, jeopardize the Kingdom’s peace with Israel, and even threaten the country’s very survival.”
Gaza's Health Ministry said that Israeli forces have killed 92 Palestinians since the ceasefire went into effect
February 11, 2025 at 12:35 pm ET
Israeli officials have admitted to The New York Times that Hamas’s claims about Israel violating the Gaza ceasefire are accurate.
The report, which cited three Israeli officials and two officials from mediating countries who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Israel agreed to let in hundreds of thousands of tents as part of the ceasefire deal, which hasn’t happened.
A few days before Hamas announced it was postponing the next hostage release scheduled for February 15, an official from Gaza’s Media Office said only 10% of the required tents had arrived. Israel has also not allowed mobile homes and heavy equipment to clear the rubble in Gaza.
Besides the blocking of promised aid, Israeli forces have also continued to kill Palestinians in Gaza. The Health Ministry said on Tuesday that since the ceasefire went into effect on January 19, Israeli forces have killed 92 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 822.
Dr. Munir al-Barash, the director of the Health Ministry, also said that since January 19, 24 Palestinians have died of previously sustained wounds, meaning the total number of Palestinians that have died in Gaza due to Israeli aggression is at least 118. He said in the same time period, 641 bodies have been recovered from the rubble, and 197 remain unidentified.
Hamas had stayed relatively quiet about the Israeli ceasefire violations until after repeated calls by President Trump for all of the Palestinians in Gaza, which he says is about 1.9 million people (pre-war population was about 2.3 million), to be removed from the territory permanently as part of his plan for the US to take it over.
In response to Hamas announcing it will postpone the next hostage release, Trump said if all the Israelis held in Gaza aren’t released by this Saturday, the ceasefire should be “canceled,” signaling he’s ready to back Israel if it restarts the genocidal war. Haaretz reported on Sunday that Netanyahu intends to sabotage the truce and not enter the second phase.
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