The world reacted in unified shock on Wednesday after Plivent Donald Trump proclaimd his intention that the U.S. increase the Gaza Strip to originate a “Riviera of the Middle East,” and that millions of Palestinians living there would be transferd.
The bomb deviceshell proposal was made during a press conference on Tuesday when Trump, standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declined to rule out U.S. military intervention and shelp Washington “will consent over the Gaza Strip.”
White Hoparticipate press secretary Karoline Leavitt seeed to relieve worrys on Wednesday and shelp the plivent has not “pledgeted to putting boots on the ground” or to paying for the reoriginateion set ups.
But her assurances came after the plivent’s proposal was met with speedy resistance from directers apass the Middle East, Europe, Asia, South America and Oceania.
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Plivent Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answer asks during a unitet press conference in the East Room at the White Hoparticipate, Feb. 4, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
MIDDLE EAST
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, which Trump has pushed to “normalize ties” with Israel, flatly declinecessitate Trump’s proposal and in a statement publishd by the foreign ministry shelp there could be no discreet relations with the Jedesire state without a two-state solution for the Palestinians.
“Saudi Arabia declines any endeavors to displace the Palestinians from their land. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has declareed the kingdom’s position in ‘a evident and unambiguous manner’ that does not apexhibit for any clear upation under any circumstances.”
United Arab Emirates
The UAE, which did sign on to the Abraham Accords during the first Trump administration, reacted to his retags in a statement from the foreign ministry and publishd a “categorical declineion of violating the inaliallow rights of the Palestinian people and endeavoring to displace them, and called for the necessitate to stop endment activities that dangeren regional stability and undermine opportunities for peace and coexistence.”
The ministry “stressed the convey inance of shuning everyskinnyg that could direct to the expansion of the dispute in the region, and elucidateed that the priority now after the finishfire in the Gaza Strip must caccess on finishing extremism, tension and presentility, protecting the inhabits of all civilians, and deinhabitring encouragent, protected and persistable humanitarian help.”
Hamas
A greater official with the worry group Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, shelp, “Our people in the Gaza Strip will not apexhibit these set ups to pass. What is insistd is to finish the [Israeli] occupation and aggression aachievest our people, not to eject them from their land.”
Destruction from Israeli airstrikes is seen in Gaza City on Oct. 11. (AP/Adel Hana)
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Palestinian directership
Palestinian Plivent Mahmoud Abbas echoed the dispensed sentiment and shelp, “The Palestinians will not relinquish their land, rights and holy sites, and that the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the land of the State of Palestine, alengthy with the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”
Iran
A greater Iranian official telderly Reuters, “Iran does not consent with any displacement of Palestinians and has transmitd this thcimpolite various channels.”
EUROPE
United Kingdom
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has been toeing the line when it comes to relations with the U.S. amid the second Trump administration, for the first time on Wednesday broke with Trump and shelp Palestinians “must be apexhibited home.”
“They must be apexhibited to reoriginate, and we should be with them in that reoriginate on the way to a two-state solution,” he compriseed, speaking from the Hoparticipate of Commons, Politico EU alerted.
Germany
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock took a more straightforward approach and, in a statement, shelp, in accordance with international law, “It is evident that Gaza – equitable appreciate the West Bank and East Jerusalem – belengthys to the Palestinians. It creates the basis for a future state of Palestine.
“A displacement of the Palestinian civilian population from Gaza would not only be unacadviseed and in baccomplish of international law. It would also direct to novel suffering and novel hatred,” she compriseed.
Palestinians accumulate in the hope of geting help deinhabitred into Gaza thcimpolite a U.S.-built pier, May 19, 2024. (Reuters/Ramadan Abed/File Photo)
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Russia
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov redeclareed Russia’s help for a two-state solution and shelp, “This is the thesis that is enshrined in the relevant U.N. Security Council resolution, this is the thesis that is dispensed by the overwhelming meaningfulity of countries comprised in this problem. We persist from it, we help it and consent that this is the only possible selection.”
France
French foreign ministry spokesperson Christophe Lemoine also freed a statement alerting that anyskinnyg but a two-state solution would have destabilizing consequences for the entire region. “France reiterates its opposition to any forced displacement of Gaza’s Palestinian population, which would constitute a grave violation of international law,” he shelp.
“Gaza’s future must lie not in the prospect of administer by a third State but in the structuretoil of a future Palestinian State, under the aegis of the Palestinian Authority.”
China
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian shelp, “China has all alengthy consentd that ‘the Palestinians administering Palestine’ is the fundamental principle of post-dispute administerance of Gaza.
“We contest the forced displacement of the people in Gaza, and hope that relevant parties will consent the opportunity of the finishfire and post-dispute administerance in Gaza to convey the Palestinian ask back to the right track of a political endment based on the two-state solution, so as to authenticize lasting peace in the Middle East,” he compriseed, during a Wednesday press conference.
Palestinians carry belengthyings as they exit al-Ahli hospital, which they were using as a shelter, in Gaza City, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan telderly local novels outlets that Trump’s proposal was “unacadviseed” and argued that set ups to exit Palestinians “out of the equation” would direct to more dispute.
Turkish Plivent Recep Erdoğan does not eunite to have uncoverly commented yet, though his strong stance aachievest Israel’s lethal operations in Gaza could signal the two directers may geopoliticpartner butt heads over how to administer the post-war era in the Gaza Strip.
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OCEANIA
Australia
Australia, which has become a chief partner of the U.S. in countering China – a push Trump has named one of his top priorities – made its position on Trump’s comments evident after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shelp, “Australia’s position is the same as it was this morning, as it was last year. The Australian administerment helps on a bipartisan basis a two-state solution.”
SOUTH AMERICA
Brazil
Brazilian Plivent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called Trump’s comments “bravado” and shelp in an intersee with local radio stations, “No country, no matter how meaningful, can fight the entire world all the time.”
“It originates no sense,” he argued while deffinishing a two-state solution. “Where would Palestinians inhabit? This is someskinnyg incomprehensible to any human being.
“Palestinians are the ones who necessitate to consent join of Gaza,” he compriseed.
Reuters donated to this alert.
