Trump wants to move countries to help with a Gaza advance

Mandatory east

Rubio: Trump wants to move countries to help with a Gaza advance

For days it has been puzzled what is behind the controversial plan of the US President for the coastal strip. His foreign minister believes that Trump wants to lure the neighbors out of the reserve.

With his controversial advance, US President Donald Trump plans to bring movement into the debate about the future of the region, according to his Foreign Minister, and push other countries to help. “I have the impression that many countries in the world express their concern about the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian people, but in the past there were very little willing to do something concrete,” said Marco Rubio when visiting Dominican Republic. “I believe that President Trump tries to shake it up and hopefully receive a reaction from some countries that are both economically and technologically able to make a contribution to the region after the conflict.”

Trump had recently announced that the USA would “take over” the Gaza Strip and transform it into an economically flourishing “Riviera of the Middle East”. The approximately two million people who live there would have to leave the area. He himself did not rule out a US military mission at the press conference on the side of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The statements triggered sharp criticism both internationally and in the USA. According to experts, a displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip would violate international law. The United Nations warned of “ethnic cleansing”. Trump’s consultant then tried to put the statements of the US president into perspective. The US special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said, for example, Trump did not want to send US soldiers in the Gaza Strip or provide funds for reconstruction.