Trump Says No Right of Return for Palestinians Under His Gaza Plan

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Feb. 10, 2025

Under President Trump's Israel First plan for Gaza, Palestinians can be shipped all over the world (including to the US) but their diaspora will have no right to return to their home country once it's rebuilt as the "Riviera of the Middle East."

Fox News: “Would the Palestinians have a right to return?"

Trump: “No, they wouldn’t… I’m talking about building a permanent place for them.”pic.twitter.com/Ttdqd2hg6W
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) February 10, 2025

From The Guardian, "Trump says no right of return for Palestinians under his Gaza 'takeover' plan":

Donald Trump has said Palestinian people would have no right of return to Gaza under his plan for the US "to take over" the territory, in an interview excerpt released earlier today.

"No, they wouldn't, because they're going to have much better housing," Trump told Fox News Channel's Bret Baier when asked if the Palestinian people would have the right to return. "In other words, I'm talking about building a permanent place for them."

Trump's plan, which has been widely condemned by western and Arab allies, is premised on emptying Gaza of its residents, effectively a call for ethnic cleansing.

Both Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Jordanian King Abdullah II dismissed Trump's call to move large numbers of Gaza's 2.3 million residents and for the US to take ownership of their homeland, but Trump claims that they would eventually accept it.

Trump said last week that after Gaza was rebuilt under his plan "the world's people" would be allowed to live there -- which apparently includes Jewish settlers but not actual Palestinians.

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