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“Completely lost the mind”: Criticism of Trump’s Gaza plans
Updated on 05.02.2025 – 1:51 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.
Break of international law, racism, a disruptive plan: For Trump’s vision for the Gaza Strip, it is international criticism – but not only. One raves about Trump’s “fresh ideas”.
Highly controversial plans by US President Donald Trump on the future of the Gaza Strip and its residents have come across violent criticism internationally. The Republican and his vage’s project, on the other hand, were approved from his own ranks, and real euphoria triggered it with legal -oriented Israelis.
Trump had said in Washington after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the coastal strip on the Mediterranean, which was strongly destroyed by the Gaza War, should go into the “property” of the USA. Under their leadership, he could become a “Riviera of the Middle East”. Trump also wants to cause a permanent resettlement of the approximately two million Palestinian residents. From the perspective of experts, this violates international law. Trump did not rule out to send US troops there to secure these plans.
According to his office, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said that after decades of fighting and the victims, the rights of the Palestinian people would not be given up. The Gaza Strip is “an integral part of the state of the state of Palestine, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which have been occupied since 1967”.
Hussein al-sheikh, General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO. “All calls to displace the Palestinian people from their home country”. “We were born here, we lived here and we will stay here.” Saudi Arabia again confirmed his support for the Palestinians.
Jordan and Egypt rejected the move because they regarded it as the end of the long efforts around a Palestinian state. The Islamist Hamas, which took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, accused Trump of racism and an undisguised attempt to refuse to refuse the Palestinians their inalienable national rights.
Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also emphasized: “Gaza, like the West Bank and East Jerusalem – belongs to the Palestinians.” A displacement gave her “unacceptable and contrary to international law”. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier skeptically commented on Trump’s considerations. “I only hear concerns here in the region,” he said at a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman.
Volker Beck, President of the German-Israeli Society, also critically commented: “Trump’s disruptive plan for Gaza ignores international law.” At the same time, however, he also said: “Whether the intention was more than to question all certainties in the Middle East will be shown.”
France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Gaza Strip should not be under external control. Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares also said: “Gaza belongs to the Palestinians who live there.” The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also rejected Trump’s plans as a forced settlements.
The democratic US senator Chris van Hollen considered the project as a severe breach of international law and spoke of “ethnic cleansing”. He told the US broadcaster MSNBC that the plan was “in many ways loathsome”. The Palestinian-American US MP Rashida Tlaib was indignant on X: “This president openly calls for ethnic cleansing, while he is sitting next to a murderous war criminal.” Dan Shapiro, who was a US ambassador in Israel under President Barack Obama, rated a serious proposal, the statements of Trump. Senator Chris Murphy wrote on X: “He completely lost his mind.”
Trump’s Foreign Minister Marco Rubio supported the President’s proposals. The United States is ready to “make Gaza beautiful again,” Rubio wrote to X. The goal is a permanent peace for all people in the region. Trump’s republican camp also became skepticism. Senator Lindsey Graham called the proposal “problematic”, as US media unanimously reported. He had doubts that his voters would be happy to send US soldiers in the Gaza Strip.
Trump receives support from the Israeli Prime Minister. “He sees another future for this piece of land that was the origin of so much terrorism,” said Netanyahu when he appeared with the US President. He generally raved about Trump’s departure from “conventional ways of thinking” and his “fresh ideas”.
Trump’s plans are also enthusiastic about right -wing Israeli. The right -wing extremist finance minister Bezhalel Smotrich, for example, thanked Trump on X and commented that it would be “even better and even better”. In addition to an Israeli and a US flag, he wrote: “Together we will make the world great again.”
A forced relocation is not compatible with international law. There are exceptions – which, however, can hardly apply in relation to the Gaza Strip. Rule 129 of international international habits is relevant. In a translation of the International Committee from the Red Cross from English, it says: “The parties involved in an international armed conflict may not be delayed the civilian population of an occupied area, in its entirety or in part, unless this The security of the affected civilians or for mandatory military reasons is offered. “