Israel Turkey strictly against Trump's resettlement plan for Gaza Strip
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strictly rejects US plans to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and instead calls on Israel to rebuild the extensively destroyed coastal area.
10.02.2025, 14:12
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"From our point of view, the proposals that aim to expel the Palestinians from the land where they have lived for thousands of years should not be taken seriously," Erdogan said at a conference in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
"No one has the power to inflict a second Nakba on the Palestinian people and never will." The term Nakba (catastrophe) refers to the flight and expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians in the first Middle East war in 1948 in the wake of the founding of the Israeli state.
Erdogan went on to say that instead of seeking a new home for the people of Gaza, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should pay for the damage he caused during the military operation against the Islamist Hamas in Gaza.
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump reaffirmed his much-criticized plans to expel the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Trump wants to "relocate" the Palestinians and "take over" Gaza. Expulsion of the two million or so people would violate international law; the United Nations has warned of "ethnic cleansing".
