Published February 05,2025
Subscribe
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will warn Wednesday in opposition to “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza over US President Donald Trump’s suggestion Palestinians could possibly be faraway from the coastal territory, his spokesman mentioned.
Trump, in a White House news convention on Tuesday alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposed “long-term ownership” of Gaza by the United States.
The extraordinary remarks got here after he has repeatedly known as in current days for the territory’s residents to transfer to Jordan or Egypt.
“The secretary-general will say that in the search for solutions, we must not make the problem worse,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric instructed reporters in a preview to Guterres’s speech.
“It is vital that we stay true to the bedrock of international law. It is essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing. And, of course, he will reaffirm the two state solution,” he mentioned.
Asked if the UN chief’s intervention was in response to Trump, Dujarric mentioned: “I think that would be a fair assumption.”
“Any forced displacement of people is tantamount to ethnic cleansing,” he added.
Even with giant components of territory’s north in ruins, tons of of 1000’s of Gazans have returned since late January, below a fragile truce that has halted greater than 15 months of battle between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas.
Gaza’s north, which incorporates Gaza City, has been notably laborious hit by the preventing all through the battle and particularly since Israel launched a serious offensive within the space in October.
Trump on Tuesday floated the concept a rebuilt Gaza would change into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr