Saudi Aarabia said it would not make ties with Israel unless a Palestinian state is created, shooting down US president Donald Trump’s claim that the Saudis did not demand Palestinian home country when he drove the idea that the American government took control of the Gaza Strip.
Trump said on Tuesday at a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants the US to take over the Gaza Strip, destroyed by the war in Israel-Has, after Palestinians have been resettled in other countries.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will also do a work with it,” said Trump in the White House. “We will possess it and be responsible for dismantling all dangerous, unexplored bombs and other weapons on the site.”
“Level the site and bowl of the destroyed buildings, deliver it, create an economic development that will deliver unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for people in the area,” he said. “Do it really. Do something else. I just can’t go back. If you go back, it will be the same way as 100 years.”
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Saudi -Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) poses prior to a work lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in the Elysée Presidential Palace on 16 June 2023 in Paris, France. (Getty Images)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia said in a statement on Wednesday that the country is rejecting all attempts to relocate the Palestinians from their home country, and emphasizes that her position over the Palestinians is not going on.
The explanation noted that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has confirmed the position of the Kingdom in “a clear and explicit way” that makes other interpretations possible under no circumstances.
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Every proposed relocation of Palestinians, an idea that Trump has suggested several times since last month is a very sensitive issue for both Palestinians and Arab countries.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answer questions during a joint press conference in the East Room in the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
Trump said on January 25 That he wanted Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries to accept more Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip, so that maybe enough people went outside to “just clean up” the area.
“You’re talking about one and a half million people, and we just clean up that whole thing and say,” You know, it’s over, “he said at the time.
In the midst of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Palestinians feared that they would suffer from another “nakba”, which means catastrophe in Arabic, which refers to the relocation and expropriation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 war at the birth of the is Israel. .
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The US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room in the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
The US had led months of diplomacy to convince Saudi Arabia to normalize ties with Israel and to recognize the country in the middle. But the war in Gaza, who started with Hamas’ 7 October 2023, attack on the Jewish state, led the Saudis to leave the case in the midst of Arabic anger Israël’s offensive.
Trump wants Saudi -Arabia in the footsteps of countries, including the United Arab Emirates, a trade hub in the middle and busharain, who signed the Abraham agreements in 2020 and normalized ties with Israel.
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Saudi Arabia, which brings about ties with Israel, would be a main prize for the Jewish state because the kingdom has an enormous influence in the middle and the wider Muslim world, and it is the world’s largest oil exporter.
Reuters has contributed to this report.
