Donald Trump’s ‘US Will Take Gaza’ Plan Rejected by Allies & Adversaries | Global Reactions

Donald Trump’s ‘US Will Take Gaza’ Plan Rejected by Allies & Adversaries: Several countries are summarily rejecting President Donald Trump's proposal for the U.S. to "take over" the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents.

At the confab, Trump floated his proposal, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel repeatedly smiled while Trump detailed plans to build new settlements for Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said. “We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs.”

Also Read: Khushi Kapoor on Self-Esteem Struggles: ‘I Didn’t Look Like My Mother or Sister’

Here's how world leaders reacted to Trump's comment.

UK foreign secretary David Lammy declared that it was “essential that the Palestinians be allowed to live and prosper in their own homelands”.

"We must see Palestinians able to live and prosper in their homelands in Gaza, in the West Bank. That is what we want to get to," Lammy said at a conference in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, according to AFP.

The British foreign secretary said that when reconstruction is undertaken in Gaza, almost completely destroyed, the UK will take part along with the Palestinian authorities and Gulf and Arab partners.

German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock declared categorically that Gaza "belongs to the Palestinians" and that the civilian population of Gaza must not be expelled.

"The civilian population of Gaza must not be expelled and Gaza must not be permanently occupied or repopulated," Baerbock said in a statement. "It is clear that Gaza -- like the West Bank and east Jerusalem -- belongs to the Palestinians. They form the basis for a future Palestinian state."

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asserted that a proposal by Trump to resettle Palestinians elsewhere and take over war-ravaged Gaza "makes no sense", according to Reuters.

"Where would Palestinians live? This is something incomprehensible to any human being," Lula has said in an interview to local radio stations: "Palestinians are the ones who need to take care of Gaza".

France indicated that any forceful displacement of the Palestinian population would constitute a serious violation of international law.

Also Read: Delhi Exit Poll 2025 LIVE: Voting Ends, Projections to Begin at 6:30 PM

"France reiterates its opposition to any forced displacement of the Palestinian population of Gaza, which would constitute a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, but also a major obstacle to the two-state solution and a major destabilising factor for our close partners Egypt and Jordan as well as for the entire region," France's foreign ministry spokesperson Christophie Lemoine was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Russia stated that a settlement in the Middle East is considered possible only on the grounds of a two-state solution.

"This is the thesis that is enshrined in the relevant U.N. Security Council resolution, this is the thesis that is shared by the overwhelming majority of countries involved in this problem. We proceed from it, we support it and believe that this is the only possible option," a Kremlin spokesperson said.

In the meantime, the militant Palestinian outfit Hamas condemned Trump's overtures for taking-over and ownership of Gaza, saying it would only serve to inspire further violence in the region.

"Our Palestinian people... will not allow any state in the world to occupy our land or impose guardianship on our great Palestinian people who have offered rivers of blood to liberate our land from occupation and to establish our state with Jerusalem as its capital," it said in a statement.

Also Read: 104 Indians Deported from US Land in Amritsar – What Happens Next