Donald Trump continued to push his plan for MAGA-fied peace in the Middle East on Tuesday: the illegal removal of more than two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, an act that would likely be considered ethnic cleansing under international law.
Erakat blamed the Biden administration for undermining the same global institutions, including the UN Security Council and International Criminal Court, which she said should have been empowered to prevent Trump’s plan to forcibly remove the people of Gaza.
Human Rights Watch used different language when the international civil liberties watchdog said of the plan last week: “International humanitarian law prohibits the permanent forced displacement of the population of an occupied territory.
The reaction across Europe and the Middle East to Trump’s plan for the US to “own” Gaza — which he reiterated on Tuesday — has been a mixture of shock and outright dismissal.
Others in the foreign policy sphere who spoke to The Independent on Tuesday dismissed the Trump White House plan for Gaza out of hand.
