UNITED NATIONS :The UN chief warned Wednesday against ethnic cleansing in Gaza as he rejected US President Donald Trump’s bombshell proposal for the United States to take control of the Palestinian territory and displace all its people.trump, in a White House news conference on Tuesday alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stunningly proposed “long-term ownership” of Gaza by the United States, triggering an international uproar.
The remarks came after he has repeatedly called in recent days for the war-ravaged territory’s residents to move to Jordan or Egypt.”At its essence, the exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people is about the right of Palestinians to simply live as human beings in their own land,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a speech to a UN committee that deals with the rights of Palestinians.
But, he added, “we have seen the realization of those rights steadily slip farther out of reach.”
