‘Colonial erasure’: Iran slams Trump plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza
Al Jazeera
Iran joins other countries in Middle East in rejecting Trump’s proposal for displacing Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.
Iran has condemned US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, joining other countries in the region in rejecting the plan.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that the international community should help Palestinians “secure their right to self-determination … rather than pushing for other ideas that would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing”.
The remarks from Baghaei come after Trump repeatedly floated an idea to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and move its entire population to Egypt and Jordan.
Trump called Gaza a “demolition site” following 15 months of Israeli bombardment that rendered most of the territory’s 2.3 million people homeless.
“‘Cleaning out’ Gaza … is part of colonial erasure of [the] Gaza Strip and the whole Palestine,” Baghaei said, adding that “no third party” can decide on the future of the Palestinian territory.
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