German Chancellor 'completely rejects' Trump's Gaza plan

 Friday, February 7, 2025

Islamabad (Point News Today / Pakistan Point News - 23rd February, 2025 ) Speaking at an election rally in connection with the national parliamentary elections to be held in Germany on the 23rd of this month, Chancellor Scholz said, “We should not resettle the population of Gaza in Egypt.” Scholz “completely rejected” the proposal.

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The German Chancellor also urged other countries to prevent further tensions in the Middle East and work to ensure peaceful coexistence between Israel and a future Palestinian state.

Earlier this week, President Trump, speaking at a joint press conference in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the United States would take ‘ownership’ of Gaza.

He also said that Palestinians from Gaza could be resettled in other countries in the region. Several Arab governments quickly issued statements rejecting the idea.

On Wednesday, February 5, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reiterated the Berlin government's position that the Gaza Strip belongs to the Palestinians and that any withdrawal from Gaza would violate international law.

Rubio to visit the Middle East next week

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making his first official visit to the Middle East next week.

Reuters news agency quoted a US State Department official as saying.

Rubio will attend a security conference in Munich, Germany, before visiting Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia from February 13 to 18.

According to Reuters, the US official said Rubio will discuss the US president's plan to change the "status quo" in Gaza and the region.

Trump's Gaza plan is damaging to Saudi-Israeli relations, analysts say

Analysts say US President Donald Trump's plan to occupy Gaza would jeopardize efforts to establish bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel and fuel anti-American sentiment in the oil-rich kingdom.

"If this becomes their policy, then they have closed the door on Saudi Arabia recognizing Israel," James Dorsey, a researcher at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore, told AFP.

Saudi Arabia had been discussing possible talks with the United States to establish formal relations with Israel until the Gaza war began, but this process was abandoned after the war in Gaza.

The Saudis reacted with unusual swiftness to US President Donald Trump's proposal, made during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.

About an hour after Trump’s statement, at 4 a.m. Saudi time, the country’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Twitter, clearly rejecting efforts to displace the Palestinian people from their land.

The same statement also rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that Saudi-Israeli relations were about to be established. The statement reiterated that there would be no Saudi-Israeli relations without the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.