Israeli forces kill 9 Palestinians in West Bank, 2 in Gaza – Ceasefire Day 25

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Family members mourn for 15-year-old Palestinian Enes Sikr Ahmed Nebahin, who was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper, Deir al-Balah, Gaza on February 13, 2025. (Abdallah F.s. Alattar – Anadolu Agency)

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Two Palestinian teenage boys, were killed on Thursday in Gaza: one, age 15, was shot dead by Israeli snipers; the other, age 14, was killed when an unexploded ordnance detonated.

Palestinian medics and rescue teams retrieved 14 more bodies from the rubble in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry reported on Thursday.

In the West Bank, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in Tulkarem.

The Sheikh Ajlin neighborhood of Gaza City, on February 12, 2025 in Gaza. (Ali Jadallah – Anadolu Agency)

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, most from Gaza, to be released Saturday

The Hamas office responsible for prisoners announced that 36 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment, as well as 333 Gazan prisoners arrested after October 7, are expected to be released tomorrow as part of the sixth phase of the hostage deal.

Sagui Dekel Chen, Iair Horn and Alexander “Sasha” Troufanov have been announced as the three hostages who will be released from captivity in Gaza on Saturday after 498 days in captivity.

Israeli minister announces plans to ‘deport’ Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem

Israel’s interior minister announced plans yesterday to “deport” three Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem, including a freed prisoner and a current detainee, claiming that they are relatives of “terrorists”.

“I have decided to exercise my authority under the law and act to deport three terror supporters, who are family members of terrorists and chose to side with the enemy in time of war and support the harm to Israeli citizens,” Moshe Arbel told Israel Hayom. “Anyone who incites, praises and supports terror has no place among us. I will continue to act decisively against anyone who threatens Israeli citizens.”

The move follows the approval of a controversial law in November 2024, that permits the Israeli government to deport family members of Palestinians accused of “terrorism” to the Gaza Strip or other locations, including Arab citizens of Israel.

NOTE: The use of the word “terrorist” for those who resist occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance. Hamas has clearly and openly statedthat its enemy is not the Jewish people, but the supremacist ideology of Zionism – the ideology under which Israel dispossessed 750,000 Palestinian people and exiled them to Gaza and other locations.

Israel may ask Hamas to release more prisoners under 1st phase of ceasefire agreement: Report

Israel may ask Hamas to expand the list of Israeli prisoners to be released in the first phase of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in Gaza, a report said Wednesday.

Israel is exploring the possibility of making the request to the Palestinian group through intermediaries Egypt, Qatar and the US, said Channel 12.

The request reportedly comes after some prisoners were found to be sick and injured.

Under the first phase of the ceasefire deal, 33 Israeli hostages are to be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Many if not most of the released Palestinian prisoners have been in very poor health, having endured torture and starvation.

Israel is currently holding approximately 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in inhumane conditionswhere many are systematically tortured – 365 of them are children, 15 are women, and over 3,300 are administrative detainees – being held without charge or trial. Administrative detention is intended to be used only in “exceptional” circumstances, but Israel uses it widely. Read more here.

Recently released Palestinian prisoners exchange horror stories of torture, starvation, and neglect. (screengrab)

West Bank: Nine Palestinians killed, hundreds of homes bulldozed as Israeli assault on Tulkarem enters 18th day

The Israeli army’s deadly assault on the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem has entered its 18^th day, as Tel Aviv’s forces have continued to displace civilians, destroy infrastructure, and make arrests in the city and elsewhere in the territory.

Video footage from 13 February showed Israeli bulldozers destroying homes in Tulkarem’s Nour Shams Refugee Camp.

Occupation forces continue besieging the eastern neighborhood of the city, specifically Al-Muqata’a Street and Abu Safiya Junction, seizing residential buildings and turning them into military outposts,” WAFA news agency reported on Thursday.

The camp’s Media Committee announced that 10,500 people have been displaced since Israeli forces began the assault on Nour Shams, marking around 80 percent of the camp’s population.

A view of damaged buildings after an IDF raid on the Nur Shams Refugee Camp near Tulkarem, West Bank on September 24, 2024. (Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

West Bank: ‘Last nail in the coffin’: Israeli settlers push on with fresh land grab

Israeli settlers are pushing ahead with a largely unnoticed de facto annexation of large areas of rural land in the occupied West Bank that has already seen the almost total displacement of Bedouin in large areas.

Valleys that once sustained groups of Bedouin up to a few hundred are now occupied by ramshackle illegal outposts, sometimes a single house or hut, sometimes a couple of buildings, visible radiating out from the Israeli settlement of Tko’a through the hills and connected to the main settlement by snaking water pipes.

“You can see how empty it is except for a few outposts,” Yoni Mizrachi, a researcher for the settlement monitoring group Peace Now, said, adding that while these illegal outposts framed their activity as “farming” these shacks in reality represented an effort to take control of large rural areas that had succeeded even in the absence of the Israeli military.

“In 2024 I counted 59 new illegal outposts,” said Mizrachi, referring to all of the West Bank. “It was a record year. A new one every week. Before, you might see between zero and 10 to a dozen in an average year.”

“The Bedouin here are the weakest and most vulnerable of the Palestinian communities and they are being displaced as communities and made homeless,” Mizrachi said.

Yehuda Shaul of Ofek, the Israeli Centre for Public Affairs, said: “What’s happening around Tko’a is what is happening elsewhere,” said Shaul. “New areas being cleansed by settler violence.”

Shaul said that in the 12 months before 7 October 2023 “we saw something like 100 Palestinians displaced” but in the months after the Hamas attack it was 1,400. He added that the acceleration of settler activity in the Tko’a area was being accommodated by the current Israeli political climate.

“Three and a half years ago there were around 240,000 dunums Palestinians could not access because of settler violence,” he said. “Today that figure is close to 800,000. That’s 12% of the West Bank.”

“Now the [settlers’] goal is that the Palestinians must be contained in the built-up areas. The open spaces – they say – are ours. They are trying to put the last nail in the coffin [of a meaningful Palestinian state.]”

NOTE: Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers. Israeli settlements and settlers on Palestinian land are aviolation of international law, and considered by many Palestinians to be the main barrier to any lasting peace agreement.

Some settler groups, moreover, have a history ofviolence against Palestinians, often with theassistance of Israeli military forces.

In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israeli soldiers accompany Israel settlers through the Old City of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 (Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu)

145 Democrats demand Trump retract Gaza comments

Over two-thirds of House Democrats signed a letter to President Trump urging him to retract his “dangerous” comments proposing the U.S. “take over” the Gaza strip, Axios has learned.

Trump said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip,” “own it” and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

He doubled down this week by saying Palestinians wouldn’t have the right to return to Gaza, saying of the region: “I would own this.”

The letter, which was first obtained by Axios, says, “We are alarmed that an American president would advocate for the forcible removal and permanent displacement of two million people.”

They argued that such a move would “not only be morally indefensible,” but damage the U.S.’ global standing, put American troops in harm’s way and lead to increased terrorism.

The letter was signed by 145 of the 215 House Democrats, led by Reps. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.).

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference at the White House on Feb. 4, 2025 (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Vatican condemns Trump’s plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza

The Vatican’s secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, has criticized US President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza.

“The Palestinian population must remain on its land,” Parolin stated at the Italy-Vatican summit, according to ANSA news agency.

“This is one of the fundamental points of the Holy See: no deportations,” he added, reaffirming the Vatican’s opposition to forced displacement.

New York Times ad, Feb. 13, 2025 (social media)

‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan

More than 350 rabbis, alongside additional signatories including Jewish creatives and activists, have signed an ad in the New York Times in which they condemn Donald Trump’s proposal for the effective ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.

The ad, which was signed by rabbis including Sharon Brous, Roly Matalon and Alissa Wise, as well as Jewish creatives and activists including Tony Kushner, Ilana Glazer, Naomi Klein and Joaquin Phoenix, says: “Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say no to ethnic cleansing!”

The ad follows Trump’s proposal to “take over Gaza” and leave 2 million Palestinians who have survived Israel’s deadly onslaught against the narrow strip with “no alternative” but to leave their homes.

Zionist rabbis tell Trump he is ‘God’s emissary in the global battle against evil’

Dozens of Israeli rabbis have sent a message to US President Donald Trump, in which they claimed that he is “God’s emissary in the global battle against evil” and that settlements bring peace to the entire world. This was said in a letter sent to Trump by rabbis from the Torat Ha’aretz HaTova organization, according to Israel Hayom on Wednesday.

“Trump was chosen by God for this significant role,” said the rabbis, who praised his efforts in support of the US, Israel and the free world. “The current fight against radical terrorism is not just a regional conflict, but a battle for the survival of moral and just values worldwide.”

The signatories claimed that “We are currently in the midst of Judaism’s war against radical Islam, which is in fact a battle of the free world against cruel violence, which hates civilization and the moral values that all nations have inherited from the Bible.”

They ended their letter by telling Trump, “We pray in the Land of Israel and in Jerusalem that God will protect you and those around you, that His blessing will rest upon your work, and that you will bring peace and prosperity to the entirety.”

Explainer: Breaking down Trump’s executive order targeting Palestine activists

On January 29 President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at canceling the visas of foreign students who participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide across college campuses last year.

“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” said Trump in a fact sheet released alongside the order. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”

“Selectively enforcing immigration laws to punish political speech violates the First Amendment. The president should not be in the business of policing speech on college campuses,” said Ben Wizner, Director of the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the ACLU in a statement to Mondoweiss. “The administration has many tools at its disposal to combat rising antisemitism that don’t involve targeting people who participate in this country’s political debates.”

“The implications of this executive order go far beyond the Palestine movement,” said Palestine Legal Director Dima Khalidi in a statement. “It encourages government agencies to find ways to target any dissent from Trump’s agenda, and aims to enlist universities themselves as its censors and snitches. It is imperative that universities protect the rights of their students, refuse to cooperate with Trump’s efforts to silence and criminalize dissent, and end the McCarthyite crackdowns of students speaking out for Palestinian rights” (continue reading here).

Over 300 workers, students and community members rallied for Palestine in a march ended at the UPenn encampment for Gaza in Philadelphia, May 8, 2024. (Joe Piette/CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED)

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IMEMC Daily Reports

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – FEBRUARY 13, 2025 (ongoing count):

At least 63,312 Palestinians killed, 118,638 injured – including:

at least 62,403 killed in Gaza (~20,600 children)
at least 909 killed in the West Bank (~180 children)
at least 111,676 injured in Gaza
at least 7,000 injured in the West Bank

WAR STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 (Hamas attack) – JANUARY 19, 2025 (Ceasefire):

Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: at least 48,143 – including at least 47,283 in Gaza (~20,600 children), and 860 in the West Bank (~177 children). Palestinian injuries: at least 118,472 – including at least 111,629 in Gaza, and 7,000 in the West Bank.

Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.

Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: ~1,616 (or 1,590) – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 436 (or 405) military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.

NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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Pasukan Israel membunuh 9 orang Palestina di Tepi Barat, 2 di Gaza – Gencatan Senjata Hari 25

Contact@ifamericansknew.org 14 Februari 2025demokrat di gaza, pembersihan etnis, permukiman Israel, protes palestina, paus francis gaza, pertukaran tahanan, rabi di gaza, tulkarem, perampasan tanah tepi barat

Anggota keluarga berduka atas warga Palestina Enes Sikr Ahmed Nebahin yang berusia 15 tahun, yang ditembak dan dibunuh oleh penembak jitu Israel, Deir al-Balah, Gaza pada 13 Februari 2025. (Abdallah F.s. Alattar – Agensi Anadolu)

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Dua remaja laki-laki Palestina, dibunuh pada hari Kamis di Gaza: satu, berusia 15 tahun, ditembak mati oleh penembak jitu Israel; yang lainnya, berusia 14 tahun, terbunuh ketika sebuah senjata yang tidak meledak meledak.

Petugas medis dan tim penyelamat Palestina mengambil 14 mayat lagi dari puing-puing di Jalur Gaza, Kementerian Kesehatan melaporkan pada hari Kamis.

Di Tepi Barat, pasukan Israel membunuh sembilan orang Palestina di Tulkarem.

Lingkungan Sheikh Ajlin di Kota Gaza, pada 12 Februari 2025 di Gaza. (Ali Jadallah – Agensi Anadolu)

Ratusan tahanan Palestina, sebagian besar dari Gaza, akan dibebaskan pada hari Sabtu

Kantor Hamas yang bertanggung jawab atas tahanan mengumumkan bahwa 36 tahanan yang dijatuhi hukuman penjara seumur hidup, serta 333 tahanan Gaza yang ditangkap setelah 7 Oktober, diperkirakan akan dibebaskan besok sebagai bagian dari fase keenam dari kesepakatan sandera.

Sagui Dekel Chen, Iair Horn dan Alexander "Sasha" Troufanov telah diumumkan sebagai tiga sandera yang akan dibebaskan dari penahanan di Gaza pada hari Sabtu setelah 498 hari di penangkaran.

Menteri Israel mengumumkan rencana untuk 'mendeportasi' warga Palestina dari Yerusalem Timur yang diduduki

Menteri dalam negeri Israel mengumumkan rencana kemarin untuk "mendeportasi" tiga warga Palestina dari Yerusalem Timur yang diduduki, termasuk seorang tahanan yang dibebaskan dan seorang tahanan saat ini, mengklaim bahwa mereka adalah kerabat dari "teroris".

"Saya telah memutuskan untuk menggunakan otoritas saya di bawah hukum dan bertindak untuk mendeportasi tiga pendukung teror, yang merupakan anggota keluarga teroris dan memilih untuk berpihak pada musuh di masa perang dan mendukung kerugian bagi warga Israel," kata Moshe Arbel kepada Israel Hayom. “Siapa pun yang menghasut, memuji, dan mendukung teror tidak memiliki tempat di antara kita. Saya akan terus bertindak tegas terhadap siapa pun yang mengancam warga Israel.”

Langkah tersebut mengikuti persetujuan undang-undang kontroversial pada November 2024, yang mengizinkan pemerintah Israel untuk mendeportasi anggota keluarga warga Palestina yang dituduh melakukan "terorisme" ke Jalur Gaza atau lokasi lain, termasuk warga Arab Israel.

CATATAN: Penggunaan kata "teroris" bagi mereka yang menolak pendudukan dan penindasan adalah pilihan politik, bukan berdasarkan fakta. Pada kenyataannya, hukum internasional mendukung upaya kelompok perlawanan terhadap kekuatan pendudukan, PBB memperluas hak itu ke titik perlawanan bersenjata. Hamas telah dengan jelas dan terbuka menyatakan bahwa musuhnya bukanlah orang Yahudi, tetapi ideologi supremasi Zionisme - ideologi di mana Israel merampas 750.000 orang Palestina dan mengasingkan mereka ke Gaza dan lokasi lainnya.

Israel mungkin meminta Hamas untuk membebaskan lebih banyak tahanan di bawah fase pertama perjanjian gencatan senjata: Laporan

Israel mungkin meminta Hamas untuk memperluas daftar tahanan Israel yang akan dibebaskan dalam fase pertama gencatan senjata dan perjanjian pertukaran tahanan di Gaza, sebuah laporan mengatakan pada hari Rabu.

Israel sedang menjajaki kemungkinan untuk membuat permintaan kepada kelompok Palestina melalui perantara Mesir, Qatar dan AS, kata Channel 12.

Permintaan itu dilaporkan datang setelah beberapa tahanan ditemukan sakit dan terluka.

Di bawah fase pertama kesepakatan gencatan senjata, 33 sandera Israel akan dibebaskan dengan imbalan ratusan tahanan Palestina.

Banyak jika tidak sebagian besar tahanan Palestina yang dibebaskan memiliki kesehatan yang sangat buruk, setelah mengalami penyiksaan dan kelaparan.

Israel saat ini menahan sekitar 10.000 tahanan Palestina dalam kondisi tidak manusiawi di mana banyak yang disiksa secara sistematis - 365 di antaranya adalah anak-anak, 15 adalah wanita, dan lebih dari 3.300 adalah tahanan administratif - ditahan tanpa tuduhan atau persidangan. Penahanan administratif dimaksudkan untuk digunakan hanya dalam keadaan "luar biasa", tetapi Israel menggunakannya secara luas. Baca lebih lanjut di sini.

Para tahanan Palestina yang baru saja dibebaskan bertukar cerita horor tentang penyiksaan, kelaparan, dan pengabaian. (screengrab)

Tepi Barat: Sembilan warga Palestina tewas, ratusan rumah hancur saat serangan Israel terhadap Tulkarem memasuki hari ke-18

Serangan mematikan tentara Israel di kota Tulkarem di Tepi Barat yang diduduki telah memasuki hari ke-18, karena pasukan Tel Aviv terus menggusur warga sipil, menghancurkan infrastruktur, dan melakukan penangkapan di kota dan tempat lain di wilayah tersebut.

Rekaman video dari 13 Februari menunjukkan buldoser Israel menghancurkan rumah-rumah di Kamp Pengungsi Nour Shams Tulkarem.

Pasukan pendudukan terus mengepung lingkungan timur kota, khususnya Jalan Al-Muqata'a dan Persimpangan Abu Safiya, merebut bangunan tempat tinggal dan mengubahnya menjadi pos militer,” kantor berita WAFA melaporkan pada hari Kamis.

Komite Media kamp mengumumkan bahwa 10.500 orang telah mengungsi sejak pasukan Israel memulai serangan terhadap Nour Shams, menandai sekitar 80 persen populasi kamp.

Pemandangan bangunan yang rusak setelah serangan IDF di Kamp Pengungsi Nur Shams dekat Tulkarem, Tepi Barat pada 24 September 2024. (Issam Rimawi/Agensi Anadolu/Getty Images)

Tepi Barat: 'Paku terakhir di peti mati': Para pemukim Israel mendorong dengan perampasan tanah segar

Para pemukim Israel mendorong maju dengan aneksasi de facto yang sebagian besar tidak diperhatikan dari tanah pedesaan yang luas di Tepi Barat yang diduduki yang telah melihat hampir total perpindahan Badui di wilayah yang luas.

Lembah-lembah yang pernah menopang kelompok Badui hingga beberapa ratus sekarang ditempati oleh pos-pos ilegal yang bobrok, kadang-kadang satu rumah atau gubuk, kadang-kadang beberapa bangunan, terlihat memancar dari pemukiman Israel Tko'a melalui perbukitan dan terhubung ke pemukiman utama dengan pipa air yang berkelok-kelok.

"Anda dapat melihat betapa kosongnya itu kecuali untuk beberapa pos terdepan," Yoni Mizrachi, seorang peneliti untuk kelompok pemantauan permukiman Peace Now, menambahkan bahwa sementara pos terdepan ilegal ini membingkai aktivitas mereka sebagai "bertani" gubuk ini pada kenyataannya mewakili upaya untuk mengendalikan daerah pedesaan yang luas yang telah berhasil bahkan tanpa adanya militer Israel.

"Pada tahun 2024 saya menghitung 59 pos ilegal baru," kata Mizrachi, mengacu pada seluruh Tepi Barat. “Itu adalah tahun rekor. Yang baru setiap minggu. Sebelumnya, Anda mungkin melihat antara nol dan 10 hingga selusin dalam satu tahun rata-rata.”

"Orang Badui di sini adalah yang terlemah dan paling rentan dari komunitas Palestina dan mereka dipindahkan sebagai komunitas dan menjadi tunawisma," kata Mizrachi.

Yehuda Shaul dari Ofek, Pusat Urusan Publik Israel, mengatakan: "Apa yang terjadi di sekitar Tko'a adalah apa yang terjadi di tempat lain," kata Shaul. "Area baru sedang dibersihkan oleh kekerasan pemukim."

Shaul mengatakan bahwa dalam 12 bulan sebelum 7 Oktober 2023 "kami melihat sekitar 100 orang Palestina mengungsi" tetapi dalam beberapa bulan setelah serangan Hamas itu adalah 1.400. Dia menambahkan bahwa percepatan aktivitas pemukim di wilayah Tko'a sedang diakomodasi oleh iklim politik Israel saat ini.

"Tiga setengah tahun yang lalu ada sekitar 240.000 dunum yang tidak dapat diakses oleh warga Palestina karena kekerasan pemukim," katanya. “Hari ini angka itu mendekati 800.000. Itu 12% dari Tepi Barat.”

“Sekarang tujuan [pemukim] adalah bahwa orang Palestina harus ditahan di daerah yang dibangun. Ruang terbuka - kata mereka - adalah milik kita. Mereka mencoba meletakkan paku terakhir di peti mati [dari negara Palestina yang berarti.]”

CATATAN: Israel telah secara ilegal membangun sekitar 280 permukiman di tanah Palestina di Tepi Barat dan Yerusalem Timur yang diduduki, yang merupakan rumah bagi lebih dari 700.000 pemukim ilegal. Permukiman dan pemukim Israel di tanah Palestina adalah pelanggaran hukum internasional, dan dianggap oleh banyak orang Palestina sebagai penghalang utama untuk setiap perjanjian damai yang langgeng.

Beberapa kelompok pemukim, apalagi, memiliki sejarah kekerasan terhadap Palestina, sering kali dengan bantuan pasukan militer Israel.

Dalam pendapat penasehat penting pada 19 Juli 2024, Mahkamah Internasional menyatakan pendudukan Israel selama beberapa dekade atas tanah Palestina "ilegal" dan menuntut evakuasi semua permukiman di Tepi Barat dan Yerusalem Timur.

Tentara Israel menemani para pemukim Israel melalui Kota Tua Hebron, di Tepi Barat yang diduduki, pada hari Sabtu, 2 November 2024 (Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu)

145 Demokrat menuntut Trump menarik kembali komentar Gaza

Lebih dari dua pertiga Demokrat DPR menandatangani surat kepada Presiden Trump yang mendesaknya untuk menarik kembali komentar "berbahaya" yang mengusulkan AS untuk "mengambil alih" Jalur Gaza, Axios telah belajar.

Trump mengatakan pada konferensi pers bersama dengan Perdana Menteri Israel Benjamin Netanyahu minggu lalu bahwa AS "akan mengambil alih Jalur Gaza," "memilikinya" dan mengubahnya menjadi "Riviera Timur Tengah."

Dia menggandakan minggu ini dengan mengatakan Palestina tidak akan memiliki hak untuk kembali ke Gaza, mengatakan tentang wilayah tersebut: "Saya akan memiliki ini."

Surat itu, yang pertama kali diperoleh oleh Axios, mengatakan, "Kami khawatir bahwa seorang presiden Amerika akan mengadvokasi pemindahan paksa dan pemindahan permanen dua juta orang."

Mereka berpendapat bahwa langkah seperti itu "tidak hanya tidak dapat dipertahankan secara moral," tetapi juga merusak posisi global AS, menempatkan pasukan Amerika dalam bahaya dan menyebabkan peningkatan terorisme.

Surat itu ditandatangani oleh 145 dari 215 Demokrat DPR, yang dipimpin oleh Perwakilan. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) dan Brad Sherman (D-Calif.).

Presiden Trump dan Perdana Menteri Israel Benjamin Netanyahu pada konferensi pers bersama di Gedung Putih pada 4 Februari 2025 (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Vatikan mengutuk rencana Trump untuk mengusir warga Palestina dari Gaza

Sekretaris negara Vatikan, Pietro Parolin, telah mengkritik proposal Presiden AS Donald Trump untuk secara paksa mengeluarkan warga Palestina dari Gaza.

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