‘Trump is a crazy’: Palestinian US President’s Acquisition Scheme in Gaza | Israel-Felistine Conflict News
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Tilting on a wooden sugarcane, 72-year-old Fati Abu al-Sad navigated the debris-fed roads of the Al-Katiba neighborhood of Khan Younis-a daily ritual because he returned from the displacement of Al-Mavasi after 19 January Gaza ceasefire. Carefully steps on the debris left for 15 months of the continuous Israeli bombing, he points to his sugarcane pointing to a demolished house.
“Do you see a pile of useless debris?” He says. “It is more valuable than the United States and everything in it.”
His audience – a group of children, including his 50 children and grandchildren – listen uncontrollably from heavy rains and strong winds forecasts. Other people join them – the children of displaced families who have returned, not to retain the houses, but for the ruins of one time. To go somewhere else, they rebuild their lives between the debris.
Every morning, Abu Al-Sand exchanges flexibility words with neighbors. But on this day, US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Gaza – his imagination of cleaning his Palestinian population to create “Riviera in the Middle East” – provides fresh material for his satire and disregard.
“Trump talked as if he is a king who is handing over the land,” Abu al-Sad Scoffs. “Maybe he can move his Israeli friends somewhere outside Palestine and leave Gaza alone.”
Trump’s comments, which widely condemned, underlined the plan to resettle the Palestinians in Gaza, while the US “and” the region “and” itself “. Standing near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who faces the arrest warrant of an international criminal court (ICC) for war crimes in Gaza – Trump claimed that Palestinians were better than their “bad luck”.
‘A award winning illusion’
During the 15 months of Israeli bombing, more than 60 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed, including hospitals, universities and schools. Washington, under the previous American administration, was Israel’s largest backer, sending $ 17.9bn in military aid during the first year of the war – the highest annual total.
“It’s a mad thing,” says Abu al-Sand. “And as we say Arabia: ‘If the speaker is a crazy, let the listener be sensible.” This man knows anything about the motherland, struggle, disregard, pride – or Palestine. ,
Abu al-Sade shook his head, dismissing Trump’s comments as absurd. “This is the best fantasy dreamed by a world leader,” he says, shifting between mistrust and laughter. “Any intelligent person who knows the Palestinians understands that it is like death to leave our motherland. Did Trump really think we would pack and go after all this? ,
For Abu al-Sand, the idea of mass displacement is individual. His father was excluded from Jafa in 1948 by Zioni Milicia – when Israel was formed, and his mother’s family was expelled from a nearby village Sarafand. He grew up on the stories of that first destruction – Nakba – and now lives through another.
“We already know what to lose everything means,” he says, pointing in ruins. “But we also know what it means to wear it.”
The war displaced 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people. Many people have returned, not standing houses, but for debris – to clean the debris, what they can do, or install tents above the ruins.
“Even under the genocide, we did not leave,” Abu al-Sand says, his voice was stable. “It’s not about going anywhere else – this is our motherland. Our land. Every brick here is of higher value for us, which can offer America. ,
For a week, Trump has pressurized Egypt and Jordan to absorb Gaza’s population, pitching its redevelopment plan as a job-building project. But even Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and his associates beyond have rejected the idea outright.
“Trump feels that we are staying in a hotel that he can close,” Abu al-Sahad laughs. “But Gaza is not a real estate project – this is our land.”
He taps his cane against the debris. “This earth is mixed with our sweat and blood. Nobody will leave here – no matter whether the danger or promise. ,
‘Is he crazy or just stupid?’
Sitting on a pile of debris, surrounded by curious children, Abu al-Sad changes his 10-year-old grandson, Mohammed, smiling.
“Trump says that we should leave Gaza and go to Egypt or Jordan. What do you think?”
The boy burst into laughter. “Is he crazy or just stupid? Why will we leave? Gaza is part of Palestine! ,
Other children make chimes, their voice arises: “Who leaves his house?” We will live, reconstruct and fight for it. ,
Abu al-Sand Chawls. “Your answer is Trump. Even our children know better than you. ,
During the war, Israel’s bombing, starvation strategy and attacks on hospitals have killed over 17,400 children, thousands of people orphans.
“What kind of argument is this?” Abu Al-Sand asks. “They keep us hungry, bomb us, and then get surprised when we refuse to leave?”
Feeling unbreakable bonds Palestinians with their land, he said, “You know what will happen again?” except US. ,
Trump, he believes, does not understand the Palestinians or their struggle. “Israel was built on the lie of ‘a land without a people’,” he says. “But we are here, and we are living.”
His eyes narrow. “For Trump, Netanyahu, like Netanyahu, is the only solution for Palestinians to disappear.”
Despite his age, straightening his back, Abu al-Sand says, “But we will not.”
This piece was published in collaboration with Agab.
