The Palestinian violent radical whose attack connected Israel launched the warfare successful Gaza is present calling President Donald Trump’s connection for the U.S. to rebuild the territory a "recipe for creating chaos and hostility successful the region."
Trump sent shockwaves passim the Middle East aft announcing past nighttime that the U.S. volition "take implicit the Gaza Strip," level it and rebuild the area.
"Instead of holding the Zionist concern accountable for the transgression of genocide and displacement, it is being rewarded, not punished," Hamas told the Associated Press Wednesday.
Hamas’ onslaught connected Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, led to the Israeli subject entering the Gaza Strip successful their ngo to destruct the Palestinian violent group. As a result, the struggle has rendered overmuch of the territory uninhabitable. The U.N. estimated precocious past year that 1.9 cardinal radical – astir 90% of Gaza’s colonisation – person been internally displaced.
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Hamas added to the AP that Trump’s program is simply a "recipe for creating chaos and hostility successful the region."
"What President Trump stated astir his volition to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip extracurricular it and the United States' power implicit the Strip by unit is simply a transgression against humanity," a elder Hamas authoritative besides told Fox News connected Wednesday.
"We request that the mediators, particularly the United States, oblige the concern to instrumentality the ceasefire statement successful its 3 stages without procrastination oregon manipulation, arsenic we are committed to implementing the statement arsenic agelong arsenic the concern commits to it, and immoderate manipulation successful implementing the statement whitethorn origin it to collapse," the authoritative added.
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Trump announced successful a associated property league with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu astatine the White House Tuesday that "The U.S. volition instrumentality implicit the Gaza Strip, and we volition bash a occupation with it, too,"
"We'll ain it and beryllium liable for dismantling each of the dangerous, unexplored bombs and different weapons connected the site," helium continued.
"Level the tract and get escaped of the destroyed buildings, level it out, make an economical improvement that volition proviso unlimited numbers of jobs and lodging for the radical of the area," Trump besides said. "Do a existent job. Do thing different. Just can't spell back. If you spell back, it's going to extremity up the aforesaid mode it has for 100 years."
Fox News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst said the timing of Trump’s comments "raises immense questions astir the existent ceasefire statement that is expected to spot the remaining hostages released from Gaza."
"There are dozens of surviving hostages wrong the Gaza Strip close present being held by Hamas, the radical that is presently successful power of Gaza. And it would not beryllium astonishing if tomorrow, Hamas threatens to measurement backmost from the existent statement oregon puts much unit astatine the negotiating table," Yingst said successful a video posted connected X past night.
"But the timing of these remarks is precise important remembering that these hostages stay successful Hamas captivity and Palestinians being removed from Gaza has been a reddish enactment not lone for Hamas but for determination countries including Egypt, Jordan and others arsenic it relates to the Palestinian radical there," helium added.
Fox News’ Trey Yingst and Emma Colton contributed to this report.