Scholz describes Trump’s Gaza plans as a scandal
Donald Trump plans to bring the Gaza Strip under US control and resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Chancellor Scholz finds this outrageous.
Washington/Berlin (dpa) - US President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his widely criticised plans for the USA to take control of the Gaza Strip. During a flight on board Air Force One, the Republican politician said of the Gaza region, “We’re committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn’t move back.”The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described Trump’s proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza and transform the coastal strip into a “Riviera of the Middle East” as a “scandal”.
“Resettling the population is not acceptable and contravenes international law,” Scholz said yesterday during a TV debate with the CDU candidate Friedrich Merz (photo). Merz said he shared the Chancellor’s view, and added that Trump’s gambit was just one of a series of baffling proposals made by the US administration. “We will have to wait and see what is actually meant seriously and how it will be implemented. There’s probably a good deal of rhetoric going on here, too,” he said.