Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel late Saturday on his first trip to the Middle East after President Donald Trump's widely condemned proposal to drive away Palestinians in Gaza.
Trump first came to the proposal on January 25th that Egypt and Jordan should bring Palestinians from Gaza.
Trump's proposal to move Gaza intensifies debate among Palestinians: “There's no life left here.”
After meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in a shocking announcement on February 4th, Trump took control and ownership of Gaza's 2.2 million Palestinians and the US-damaged seaside enclave. It proposed redevelopment in the “Middle Eastern Riviera.”
On February 10, he said the Palestinians had no right to return to Gaza under his plan, contradicting his own officials who had suggested that the Gazas would move temporarily.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sarl welcomes Secretary of State Marco Rubio on February 15, 2025 when he arrives in Israel on the first foot of a trip to the Middle East in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool)
The US president's comments reflect the long-standing fears of Palestinians that they would be ejected from their homes forever and were classified as ethnic cleansing suggestions by some critics.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the US Israeli military attacks on Gaza, now suspended by a vulnerable ceasefire, have killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in the last 16 months, and Israeli denied genocide and war crimes caused accusations.
The assault internally drove almost all of Gaza's population, causing a hunger crisis.
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The latest bloodshed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict decades ago was caused when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages. It's been done.
Rubio will discuss the aftermath of Gaza and Hamas attacks on Israel during his trip, pursuing Trump's approach to disrupt the current situation in the region, State Department officials said last week.
