By Sam Doak, Osint producer
While Donald Trump’s idea to resettle Gazans elsewhere and convert the territory into a “Riviera” reinforces his foreign policy, his “America First” pledge continues to have an impact domestically.
He has promised to deport migrants who live in the country illegally, and the authorities said that some had been transferred from Texas to Guantanamo Bay, a component of Cuba, which houses an American detention center.
And it seems the site is being readied to take in migrants, with new satellite images from Planet Labs showing the sudden appearance of new tents.
The photographs of February four seem to show the new tents at the Guantanamo Migration Operations Center (GMOC), an existing detention installation located west of the site airfield.
Previously, the GMOC has been used to hold and process migrants apprehended by US authorities at sea.
As a component of the new plans announced through the Trump administration, it extends to space tens of thousands.
According to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the facility will be used to hold migrants accused of committing crimes.
The satellite image shows the speed at which GMOC is ready for newcomers, with two giant teams of new structures appearing within five days.
The DHS released images of detainees being taken aboard a military aircraft by uniformed soldiers.
In a press release, Secretary Kirsti Noem, leader of DHS, said, “President Donald Trump is very clear: Guantanamo Bay will have the worst of the worst. Start today. “
Any forcible transfer from occupied territory breaches international law, the UN Human Rights Office has said in response to Donald Trump’s idea to take over Gaza.
The US president reported that the Palestinians leave, with a “Riviera” created in the territory.
Many global leaders have already come out on top of the proposal, and the UN has joined them in opposition.
“It is crucial that we move towards the next phase of the ceasefire, to release all hostages and arbitrarily detained prisoners, end the war and reconstruct Gaza, with full respect for international humanitarian law and international human rights law,” the UNHR said in a statement to Reuters news agency.
“Any stronghold or deportation of people from the occupied territory is strictly prohibited. “
Not all the reaction to Donald Trump’s Gaza comments have been negative.
The concept of reinstalling the Palestinians in the territory in other places, with Trump saying that the United States can take over and create a “Riviera”, not welcome through Israeli politicians of the extreme right, such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, the Reuters news firm reports that a politician in Israel said Trump had proposed “ingenious solutions” to the upheavals that have restructured the country since its inception.
Netanyahu’s stop in “very successful and overcame all our expectations and dreams,” added the source.
While there has not been a large-scale ballot in Israel to gauge a broader reaction to Trump’s comments, many would conceivably locate the plan extreme.
The majority of the Israelis are aimed at the fact that the hostages of the house remained in Gaza, taken in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and normalized with Saudi Arabia and other countries.
These objectives would possibly seem less probably if Trump presses in advance with his proposal.
But Jerusalem resident Robby Davidson said he “loved” the plan because it would ensure “there is no danger to us in the south. “
By Ben van der Merwe, Knowledge Journalist
Donald Trump’s comments overnight that Gaza can be the “Riviera of the Middle East” – with Palestinians relocated elsewhere – has sparked widespread reaction, mostly in opposition.
His son-in-law and former aide Jared Kushner floated a similar idea last year, describing the enclave as a potentially “very valuable” waterfront property – see our 10.44am post.
Much of the territory has been reduced to rubble, with rights teams and global leaders calling for reconstruction to repair the strip to its pre-conflict state.
This is when Gaza had a bustling coast, with coffees, restaurants and family resorts.
The video below shows what Gaza City’s beach looked like then.
And the symbol below, on the left, shows a satellite view of the beach in June 2023, 3 months before the war began.
On the right, you can see how the area looks as of last month, giving an idea of the kind of operation Gaza needs to resemble the footage above.
The prime minister’s questions have ended in Westminster, and as expected, Sir Keir Starmer weighed Donald Trump’s concept of resettling Palestinians in Gaza elsewhere.
“They will have to be legal at home, they will be allowed to rebuild, and we will have to be with them in this reconstruction on the path of a solution of two states,” he told the commits of the communes.
He also said the “most vital issue” right now is to make sure the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is celebrated.
He spoke a consultation of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, who criticized Trump in an article about social networks before the day.
“When we desperately want a fragile truce to sustain, Trump’s wading in Gaza would possibly have the effect of a bull in a China store,” he wrote.
“The United Kingdom will have to specify that these proposals will have to be rejected and that the foreign law and a solution of two states founded on the borders of 1967”.
Watch Starmer at PMQs here:
The global can come in combination and build them in a lovely position where they can live.
Donald Trump should know better than that, you might say. He is, after all, the leader of the free world and has at his disposal as many foreign policy advisers as he cares to listen to.
If he had asked them, they would have told him that there were some upheavals with his proposal that the people of Gaza leave and return.
Three for which it is impassable
First, it is called home. They are fiercely proud of their heritage and their history of being there. Ask everyone who has already been to Gaza.
Secondly, unlike the statement of the US President that many countries have proposed to them, none did it publicly.
In fact, Israel’s immediate neighbours Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia have all dismissed the idea out of hand.
But third, and more precisely, there is a long and dark history of Palestinians being encouraged in a way or to leave their space never to return.
Many of those living in Gaza’s “refugee camps” are descendants of the victims of the Nakba, as they call it, or the crisis when during Israel’s First War of Independence they had to flee homes on land in Israel.
They deserve to be allowed to return to this land, which, according to them, the Israelis have mistakenly taken them.
They believe that any acquiescence to mass displacement would be a betrayal of the rights of return of their ancestors.
Extract the right
In the early days of the Gaza war, Israeli right-wing politicians quietly pushed the idea that maybe the world could take Gazans in, give them a better life etc.
They do not need to live there anyway, they told us that they would be much greater in Michigan, or in the Europe of the videos, or perhaps Jordan and Egypt may be convinced to enjoy it more in exchange for the massive amounts of Americans help they receive.
Those politicians and diplomats understand their neighbours more than Trump – or should do and should have known better. But the idea never went away.
Trump, it seems, was listening and is now advocating the idea despite all its obvious shortcomings.
That will embolden far-right Jewish extremists in the Netanyahu government who openly advocate the return of Israeli settlers to occupy Gaza. We’ve already heard praise for the plan from Itamar Ben-Gvir – see post at 946am.
But it will do nothing to bring a solution to the conflict – quite the opposite.
We heard earlier from the UK environment secretary, who told us the two-state solution is the only path to peace (see 8.55am).
Foreign secretary David Lammy has reiterated that view, telling reporters this morning “we’ve always been clear in our belief that we must see two states”.
“We will have to see the Palestinians live and prosper in their country of origin in Gaza and the West Bank,” he said at a press convention in kyiv, where he went to announce 55 million pounds of help sterling in Ukraine.
His Spanish counterpart José Manuel Albares echoed his comments, telling the media “I need to be very transparent with this issue: Gaza is the country of the Palestinians of Gazán and will have to remain in Gaza. “
France’s foreign ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine said the country “reiterates its opposition to any forced displacement of the Palestinian population of Gaza”.
This would provide a “major impediment to the two-state solution,” he added.
Palestinians in Gaza have hit out at Donald Trump’s idea to resettle them elsewhere.
As our correspondent said in the Middle East, Alistair Bunkall, in our post of 7:38 a. m. , is incredibly likely that Gazaties oppose the concept of Trump.
And Reuters’s news firm spoke with the citizens there, who told them that they intended to put.
“Trump can go to hell, with his ideas, with his and with his beliefs,” Samir Abu Basel told Gaza City.
“We are going nowhere. We are not some of his assets.”
The father of five children added: “If you need this conflict, it deserves to take the Israelis and put them in one of the states [in the United States].
“They are the strangers, not the Palestinians. We are the owners of the land.”
Palestinians feared suffering from the “Nakba,” referring to the time when many thousands were dispossessed in the war that led to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, as this clash in Gaza continued.
And now they worry about some other cycle.
“We will leave our regions, we will allow a Nakba moment,” said Um Tamer Jamal, a 65-year-old mother.
“We have brought our young people to teach them that they leave their homes and allow a Nakba moment. ”
She added: “[Trump] is crazy. We left Gaza under bombardment and famine, how does he intend to expel us?We are nowhere. “
Look at the scene in Rafah, Southern Gaza, after Trump’s comments . . .
Egypt has already rejected Donald Trump’s concept that he and other neighboring countries would take displaced Palestinians from Gaza as a component of their mass resettlement plan, which human rights advocates say would be an amount to ethnic cleansing.
The country’s foreign ministry has now talked about an “integrated vision” to transparent the rubble and reconstruction of Gaza.
After foreign minister Badr Abdelatty met with Palestinian prime minister Mohamad Mustafa, the department said both sides call for rebuilding to be accelerated and the delivery of aid “without moving the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip”.
For context: Mustafa is the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, which has some portions of the West Bank.
More than 100,000 Palestinian refugees fled to Egypt to escape Gaza.
Trump’s comments caused a reaction from American allies and adversaries.
NATO member Turkey is the latest to describe Trump’s concept of reinstating Gazans as “unacceptable. “
Foreign minister Hakan Fidan said past displacement of Palestinians and the settlement of Israelis in those areas is the root cause of the conflict.
“The factor of Gaza’s evictions is anything that the region or we would accept,” Anadolu told the state agency.
“Even thinking about it, in my opinion, is and absurd. “
China, who has ice cream with Washington and is worried in a war of the tariff industry with Trump, also rejected the suggestion.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said, “China has believed that the Palestinian regime is the fundamental precept of post-war governance in Gaza. ”
Beijing’s long time repeated for a solution to two states: see our message at 9:16 a. m. To locate more about what this implies.