Trump’s Gaza scheme ‘doomed’ to failure, Hamas chief says
US President Donald Trump’s scheme for the Gaza Strip is “doomed” to failure, says the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
“We will bring them down as we brought down the projects before them,” Khalil al-Hayya said on Monday.
Khalil al-Hayya, who is also deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, was speaking during a commemoration of the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran.
On Sunday, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he was committed to buying and owning Gaza.
Trump noted, however, that he might allow some sections of the Palestinian land to be rebuilt by other states in West Asia.
“I’m committed to buying and owning Gaza. As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it, other people may do it, through our auspices. But we’re committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn’t move back.”
“Palestinian issue with the mentality of a real estate dealer is a recipe for failure,” Hamas said in a statement in response to Trump’s adventurism.
Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq said Trump’s remarks were “absurd” and reflected “deep ignorance of Palestine and the region.”
“Gaza is not a property to be sold and bought. It is an integral part of our occupied Palestinian land," he said.
On February 4, Trump hosted Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, DC. At a joint press conference there, Trump said he would take control of Gaza – possibly with the help of US troops – to create a “Riviera of the Middle East.”
He had earlier suggested that displaced Palestinians could be resettled in neighboring Arab countries.
Washington’s European allies, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt have rejected Trump’s plot, reiterating calls for the so-called two-state solution.
Hamas has pledged to keep the slogan of Martyr Ismael Haniyeh alive, which was non-recognition of the Israeli regime.
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