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‘This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple’
Campaigners condemn Trump's ‘grotesque’ plans to ‘relocate’ the Palestinians in Gaza and call on British government to ‘defend international law’
A young Palestinian kid carries jerricans along the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, February 5, 2025

CAMPAIGNERS called today for worldwide unity against  “grotesque” plans by US President Donald Trump to take over the Gaza Strip and forcibly evict the Palestinian population.

During a press conference from the White House on Tuesday, alongside a smirking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump detailed a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside Gaza and for the US to take “ownership” in redeveloping the war-torn territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

President Trump said: “The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too. 

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