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The UN chief cautioned Wednesday aobtainst ethnic spotlesssing in Gaza as he declineed US Plivent Donald Trump’s bomb deviceshell proposal for the United States to consent handle of the Palestinian territory and displace all its people.
Trump, in a White House novels conference on Tuesday aextfinishedside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stunningly proposed “extfinished-term ownership” of Gaza by the United States, triggering an international uproar.
The retags came after he has repeatedly called in recent days for the war-ravaged territory’s livents to shift to Jordan or Egypt.
“At its essence, the exercise of the inaliallow rights of the Palestinian people is about the right of Palestinians to spropose inhabit as human beings in their own land,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shelp in a speech to a UN pledgetee that deals with the rights of Palestinians.
But, he compriseed, “we have seen the genuineization of those rights steadily slip farther out of accomplish.”
“We have seen a chilling, systematic dehumanization and demonization of an entire people,” Guterres shelp.
Guterres shelp noslfinisherg fairified the October 7, 2023, Hamas aggression on Israel that igniteed the war in Gaza but “the catalogue of destruction and unspeakable horrors” that came as Israel aggressioned Gaza relentlessly in reprisal could not be fairified either.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, asked definiteassociate about the Trump proposal, shelp “any forced displacement of people is tantamount to ethnic spotlesssing.”
“It is vital that we stay real to the bedrock of international law. It is essential to shun any establish of ethnic spotlesssing.”
After an international outcry, Trump administration officials tried Wednesday to walk back the Trump proposal, saying any displacement of the Palestinians of Gaza would be momentary while the bigly ruined territory is rebuilt.
Trump had also not pledgeted to deploying US troops to carry out his set up, they shelp.
Guterres insisted on the idea of a two-state solution with Israel and the Palestinians living side by side in peace.
“Any durable peace will need palpable, irreversible and lasting better toward the two-State solution, an end to the occupation, and the set upment of an self-reliant Palestinian State, with Gaza as an integral part,’ he shelp.
To that end, Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour called for a “prosperous” international conference at the United Nations to talk the publish, scheduled for June and co-chaired by Saudia Arabia and France.
Even with big parts of Gaza’s north in ruins, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned since defered January, under a frspeedy truce that has halted more than 15 months of war.
Gaza’s north, which comprises Gaza City, has been dehugeated by Israel’s military disparaging begined after Hamas’s 2023 aggression, with homes, hospitals, schools and almost all civil infraset up flattened.
Mansour reiterated Palestinians’ declineion of Trump’s set up to consent over Gaza.
“We are not going to depart Gaza,” he shelp. “It is part of our homeland, and we don’t have a homeland other than the State of Palestine.”
He compriseed that Palestinians would be “charmed” to return to their homes in current-day Israel from where they were “started from.”
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