By Sam Doak, Osint producer
While Donald Trump’s idea to resettle Gazans elsewhere and convert the territory into a “Riviera” reinforces his foreign policy, his “America First” pledge continues to have an impact domestically.
He has promised to deport migrants who live in the country illegally, and the authorities said that some had been transferred from Texas to the Guantanamo Bay, a component of Cuba, which houses a detention center in the United States.
And it turns out that it is ready to accommodate migrants, with new Satellite photographs of Planet Labs that appear the sudden appearance of new tents.
The photographs of February four seem to show the new tents at the Guantanamo Migration Operations Center (GMOC), an existing detention installation located west of the site airfield.
Previously, the GMOC has been used to stop and procedures to migrants arrested through the United States government at sea.
As a component of the new plans announced through the Trump administration, it extends to tens of thousands in space.
According to the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the facility will be used to hold migrants accused of having committed crimes.
The satellite image shows the speed at which GMOC is ready for newcomers, with two giant teams of new structures appearing within five days.
The DHS has photographs of prisoners taken aboard an army plane through uniform soldiers.
In a press release, Secretary Kirsti Noem, leader of the DHS, said: “President Donald Trump is very clear: Guantanamo Bay will have the worst of the worst.
Any forced movement from the occupied territory violated the law, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in reaction to Donald Trump’s concept of resuming Gaza.
The president of the United States reported that the Palestinians are leaving, with a “Riviera” created in the territory.
Many world leaders have already spoken out against the proposal, and the UN has joined them in opposition.
“It is crucial that we move towards the next phase of the ceasefire, to release all hostages and arbitrarily detained prisoners, end the war and reconstruct Gaza, with full respect for international humanitarian law and international human rights law,” the UNHR said in a statement to Reuters news agency.
“Any forced movement or deportation of other people from the occupied territory is strictly prohibited. “
All reactions to Donald Trump’s comments have been negative.
The concept of resettling Palestinians in the territory, with Trump saying the U. S. can take over and create a “Riviera,” has been welcomed, unsurprisingly, through far-right Israeli politicians such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, according to the News Reuters, a policy in Israel said Trump had discovered “ingenious solutions” to disorders that have been chasing the country since its creation.
Netanyahu’s visit has been “very successful and surpassed all our expectations and dreams”, the source added.
Although there is no giant scale survey in Israel to evaluate a broader reaction to Trump’s comments, many can locate the excessive plan.
Most Israelis concentrate on the fact that the hostages of the house stayed in Gaza, took the attack against Hamas on October 7, 2023, and normalize relations with Saudi Arabia and other countries.
These goals would arguably seem less likely if Trump pushes ahead with his proposal.
But Jerusalem’s resident, Robby Davidson, said he “loved” the plan because he would ensure “there is no danger to us in the south. “
By Ben van der Merwe, data journalist
Donald Trump’s comments during the night that Gaza can be the “Riviera del Middle East”, with Palestinians who have moved, has aroused a generalized reaction, basically in opposition.
His son-in-law and former aide Jared Kushner floated a similar idea last year, describing the enclave as a potentially “very valuable” waterfront property – see our 10.44am post.
Much of the territory has been reduced to rubble, with rights groups and world leaders calling for a rebuild to restore the strip back to its pre-conflict state.
That’s when Gaza had a bustling seafront, with cafes, restaurants and family resorts.
The video below shows what the beach looked like in Gaza City.
And the symbol below, on the left, shows a satellite view of the beach in June 2023, 3 months before the war began.
On the right, you can see how the area looks as of last month, giving an idea of the kind of operation Gaza needs to resemble the footage above.
The prime minister’s questions have ended in Westminster, and as expected, Sir Keir Starmer weighed Donald Trump’s concept of resettling Palestinians in Gaza elsewhere.
“They will have to be legal at home, they will be allowed to rebuild, and we will have to be with them in this reconstruction on the path of a solution of two states,” he told the commits of the communes.
He also said that the “most vital problem” at this time to make sure the fire is celebrated between Hamas and Israel.
He spoke a consultation of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, who criticized Trump in an article about social networks before the day.
“When we desperately want a fragile truce to sustain, Trump’s wading in Gaza would possibly have the effect of a bull in a China store,” he wrote.
“The UK needs to make clear that these proposals must be rejected, and that we support international law and a two-state solution based on 1967 borders.”
Watch Starmer at PMQs here:
The global can come in combination and build them into a lovely position where they can live.
Donald Trump knows more than that, one could say. After all, he is the leader of the global loose and has at his disposal as many foreign policy advisors as he cares to pay attention.
If he had asked them, they would have told him there are a few issues with his proposal that the people of Gaza leave and don’t go back.
Three reasons why it is unworkable
First, they regard Gaza as their home. They are fiercely proud of their heritage and their history of being there. Ask anyone who has ever been to Gaza.
Second, unlike the U. S. president’s statement that many countries have proposed to them, none did so publicly.
In fact, the neighbors of Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia rejected the idea.
But third, and more to the point, there is a long and dark history of Palestinians being encouraged one way or another to leave their homes never to return.
Many of those living in Gaza’s “refugee camps” are descendants of the victims of the Nakba, as they call it, or the crisis when during Israel’s First War of Independence they had to flee homes on land in Israel.
They believe they should be allowed to return to that land, which they say Israelis wrongly took from them.
They believe that any acquiescence with mass displacement would be a betrayal of the return rights of their ancestors.
Extract the right
At the beginning of Gaza’s war, Israeli right politicians have silently driven the concept that global can have a greater life, etc.
They don’t really want to live there anyway, we were told, they’d be much better off in Michigan, or the emptier bits of Europe, or maybe Jordan and Egypt might be persuaded to take in more in return for the huge amounts of American aid they receive.
Those politicians and diplomats understand their neighbours more than Trump – or should do and should have known better. But the idea never went away.
It seems that Trump listened and now advocates the concept despite all his apparent gaps.
That will embolden far-right Jewish extremists in the Netanyahu government who openly advocate the return of Israeli settlers to occupy Gaza. We’ve already heard praise for the plan from Itamar Ben-Gvir – see post at 946am.
But that will do nothing to bring a solution to the clash: the opposite.
We listen to the British secretary in the surroundings before, who told us that the solution of two states is the only form of peace (see 8:55 am).
Foreign Minister David Lammy reiterated this point of view, telling Newshouings this morning “we have been transparent in our conviction that we will have to see two states. “
“We will have to see the Palestinians live and prosper in their country of origin in Gaza and the West Bank,” he said at a press convention in kyiv, where he went to announce 55 million pounds of help sterling in Ukraine.
His Spanish counterpart José Manuel Albares echoed his comments, telling the media “I need to be very transparent with this issue: Gaza is the country of the Palestinians of Gazán and will have to remain in Gaza. “
France’s foreign ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine said the country “reiterates its opposition to any forced displacement of the Palestinian population of Gaza”.
This would present a “major obstacle to the two-state solution”, he added.
The Palestinians in Gaza have hit Donald Trump to reassure them elsewhere.
As our Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall said in our 7.38am post, Gazans are overwhelmingly likely to oppose Trump’s idea.
And Reuters’s news firm spoke with the citizens there, who told them that they intended there.
“Trump can go to hell, with his ideas, with his and with his beliefs,” said Samir Abu Basel in the city of Gaza.
“We are going nowhere. We are not some of his assets.”
The father-of-five added: “If he wants to resolve this conflict, he should take the Israelis and put them in one of the states [in the US].
“They are foreigners, the Palestinians. We are the owners of the Earth. “
Palestinians feared suffering from the “Nakba,” referring to the time when many thousands were dispossessed in the war that led to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, as this clash in Gaza continued.
And now they fear another round of displacement.
“We will leave our areas, we will allow a Nakba moment,” said Um Tamer Jamal, a 65 -year -old mother.
“We have brought our kids up teaching them that they can’t leave their home and they can’t allow a second Nakba.”
She added: “[Trump] is crazy. We didn’t leave Gaza under the bombardment and the starvation, how does he intend to eject us? We are going nowhere.”
Watch the scene in Rafah, in southern Gaza, after Trump’s comments.
Egypt has already rejected the concept of Donald Trump that he and other neighboring countries would take the displaced Palestinians of Gaza as a component of their massive resettlement plan, that human rights members say it would be an amount to ethnic cleaning.
The country’s foreign ministry has now spoken of an “integrated vision” of the rubble and rebuild Gaza.
After the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdelatty, met the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamad Mustafa, the Ministry that the two parties ask for the reconstruction of the acceleration and delivery of “without moving to the Palestinians the Gaza Strip. “
For the context: Mustafa is the prime minister of the Palestinian authority, which has a safe part about the West Bank.
More than 100,000 Palestinian refugees have fled to Egypt to escape the war in Gaza.
Donald Trump’s comments galvanize a reaction of American allies and adversaries.
The NATO member member, Türkiye, is the last to describe the concept of Trump to reinstall the Gazans as “unacceptable. “
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the past displacement of the Israeli agreement in those regions are the depths of the conflict.
“The expulsions from Gaza is nothing that the region or we would accept,” he told the state-controlled Anadolu firm.
“Even thinking about it, in my opinion, is wrong and absurd.”
China, who has ice cream with Washington and is worried in a war of the tariff industry with Trump, also rejected the suggestion.
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian, said: “China has believed that the Palestinian regime is the fundamental precept of post -war governance in Gaza. ”
He reiterated to Beijing for the long term for a two-state solution: see our 9:16 a. m. message. to learn more about what that entails.