Turkey rejects Trump’s relocation plan for Gaza Strip

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Turkey rejects Trump’s relocation plan for Gaza Strip

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has rejected the plans of President Donald Trump of the United States to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and instead calls on Israel to rebuild the extensively destroyed coastal area.

Erdoğan stated this at a conference in the Malaysian capital on Monday.

“From our perspective, the proposals aiming to displace the Palestinians from the land they have lived on for thousands of years are not to be taken seriously.’

“No one has the power to inflict a second Nakba on the Palestinian people, nor will they ever have,” he said.

It was reported that the term Nakba, from the Arabic for catastrophe, refers to the flight and displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians in the first Middle East war in 1948 following the establishment of the Israeli state.

According to Erdoğan, instead of seeking a new place for the people of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be held accountable for the damages.

He further stated that Netanyahu was responsible for all the damages inflicted during the military operation against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

Recall that US President Donald Trump reiterated his much-criticised plans on Sunday to displace the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.