Allies and foes reject Trump's 'Riviera' plans for Gaza: 'New suffering and new hatred'

The satellite reacted successful unified daze connected Wednesday aft President Donald Trump announced his volition that the U.S. make the Gaza Strip to make a "Riviera of the Middle East," and that millions of Palestinians surviving determination would beryllium relocated. 

The bombshell proposal was made during a property league connected Tuesday erstwhile Trump, lasting adjacent to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, refused to regularisation retired U.S. subject involution and said Washington "will instrumentality implicit the Gaza Strip."

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt looked to easiness concerns connected Wednesday and said the president has not "committed to putting boots connected the ground" oregon to paying for the reconstruction plans. 

But her assurances came aft the president's connection was met with swift absorption from leaders crossed the Middle East, Europe, Asia, South America and Oceania. 

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reply questions during a associated property league successful the East Room astatine the White House, Feb. 4, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, which Trump has pushed to "normalize ties" with Israel, flatly rejected Trump’s proposal and successful a connection issued by the overseas ministry said determination could beryllium nary diplomatic relations with the Jewish authorities without a two-state solution for the Palestinians. 

"Saudi Arabia rejects immoderate attempts to displace the Palestinians from their land. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has affirmed the kingdom’s presumption successful ‘a wide and explicit manner’ that does not let for immoderate mentation nether immoderate circumstances."

United Arab Emirates

The UAE, which did motion connected to the Abraham Accords during the archetypal Trump administration, responded to his remarks successful a connection from the overseas ministry and issued a "categorical rejection of violating the inalienable rights of the Palestinian radical and attempting to displace them, and called for the request to halt colony activities that endanger determination stableness and undermine opportunities for bid and coexistence."

The ministry "stressed the value of avoiding everything that could pb to the enlargement of the struggle successful the region, and explained that the precedence present aft the ceasefire successful the Gaza Strip indispensable absorption connected ending extremism, hostility and violence, protecting the lives of each civilians, and delivering urgent, harmless and sustainable humanitarian aid."

Hamas

A elder authoritative with the panic radical Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, said, "Our radical successful the Gaza Strip volition not let these plans to pass. What is required is to extremity the [Israeli] concern and aggression against our people, not to expel them from their land."

Destruction from Israeli airstrikes is seen successful Gaza City connected Oct. 11. (AP/Adel Hana)

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Palestinian leadership

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas echoed the shared sentiment and said, "The Palestinians volition not relinquish their land, rights and ineffable sites, and that the Gaza Strip is an integral portion of the onshore of the State of Palestine, on with the West Bank and East Jerusalem."

Iran

A elder Iranian authoritative told Reuters, "Iran does not hold with immoderate displacement of Palestinians and has communicated this done assorted channels."

EUROPE

United Kingdom

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has been toeing the enactment erstwhile it comes to relations with the U.S. amid the 2nd Trump administration, for the archetypal clip connected Wednesday broke with Trump and said Palestinians "must beryllium allowed home." 

"They indispensable beryllium allowed to rebuild, and we should beryllium with them successful that rebuild connected the mode to a two-state solution," helium added, speaking from the House of Commons, Politico EU reported.

Germany

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock took a more nonstop approach and, successful a statement, said, successful accordance with planetary law, "It is wide that Gaza – conscionable similar the West Bank and East Jerusalem – belongs to the Palestinians. It forms the ground for a aboriginal authorities of Palestine.

"A displacement of the Palestinian civilian colonisation from Gaza would not lone beryllium unacceptable and successful breach of planetary law. It would besides pb to caller suffering and caller hatred," she added.

Palestinians stitchery successful the anticipation of obtaining assistance delivered into Gaza done a U.S.-built pier, May 19, 2024. (Reuters/Ramadan Abed/File Photo)

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Russia

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed Russia’s enactment for a two-state solution and said, "This is the thesis that is enshrined successful the applicable U.N. Security Council resolution, this is the thesis that is shared by the overwhelming bulk of countries progressive successful this problem. We proceed from it, we enactment it and judge that this is the lone imaginable option."

France

French overseas ministry spokesperson Christophe Lemoine besides released a connection informing that anything but a two-state solution would person destabilizing consequences for the full region. "France reiterates its absorption to immoderate forced displacement of Gaza’s Palestinian population, which would represent a superior usurpation of planetary law," helium said. 

"Gaza’s aboriginal indispensable prevarication not successful the imaginable of power by a 3rd State but successful the model of a aboriginal Palestinian State, nether the aegis of the Palestinian Authority." 

China

Chinese overseas ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said, "China has each on believed that ‘the Palestinians governing Palestine’ is the cardinal rule of post-conflict governance of Gaza. 

"We reason the forced displacement of the radical successful Gaza, and anticipation that applicable parties volition instrumentality the accidental of the ceasefire and post-conflict governance successful Gaza to bring the Palestinian question backmost to the close way of a governmental colony based connected the two-state solution, truthful arsenic to recognize lasting bid successful the Middle East," helium added, during a Wednesday property conference. 

Palestinians transportation belongings arsenic they permission al-Ahli hospital, which they were utilizing arsenic a shelter, successful Gaza City, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Turkey

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told section quality outlets that Trump’s connection was "unacceptable" and argued that plans to permission Palestinians "out of the equation" would pb to much conflict. 

Turkish President Recep Erdoğan does not look to person publically commented yet, though his beardown stance against Israel’s deadly operations successful Gaza could awesome the 2 leaders whitethorn geopolitically butt heads implicit however to grip the post-war epoch successful the Gaza Strip. 

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OCEANIA

Australia

Australia, which has go a main state of the U.S. successful countering China – a propulsion Trump has named 1 of his apical priorities – made its presumption connected Trump’s comments wide aft Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, "Australia’s presumption is the aforesaid arsenic it was this morning, arsenic it was past year. The Australian authorities supports connected a bipartisan ground a two-state solution."

SOUTH AMERICA

Brazil

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called Trump’s comments "bravado" and said successful an interrogation with section vigor stations, "No country, nary substance however important, tin combat the full satellite each the time."

"It makes nary sense," helium argued portion defending a two-state solution. "Where would Palestinians live? This is thing incomprehensible to immoderate quality being.

"Palestinians are the ones who request to instrumentality attraction of Gaza," helium added. 

Reuters contributed to this report.