Marco Rubio arrives in Israel on his first trip to the Middle East as US Secretary of State
Secretary of State Marco Rubio He arrived in Israel on Saturday on his first trip to the Middle East after President Donald Trump’s widely condemned proposal to drive away Palestinians in Gaza.
Trump first came up with the proposal Egypt and Jordan We will need to bring Palestinians from Gaza on January 25th. This is a proposal they strongly opposed.
Trump’s proposal to move Gaza intensifies debate among Palestinians: “There’s no life left here.”
After meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in a shocking announcement on February 4th, Trump took control and ownership of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinians and the US-damaged seaside enclave. It proposed redevelopment in the “Middle Eastern Riviera.”
On February 10, he said the Palestinians had no right to return to Gaza under his plan, contradicting his own officials who had suggested that the Gazas would move temporarily.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sarl welcomes Secretary of State Marco Rubio on February 15, 2025 when he arrives in Israel on the first foot of a trip to the Middle East in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool)
The US president’s comments reflect the long-standing fears of Palestinians that they would be ejected from their homes forever and were classified as ethnic cleansing suggestions by some critics.
We Israel, allies The military attack on Gaza has been suspended by a fragile ceasefire, killing more than 47,000 Palestinians in the last 16 months, the Gaza Health Ministry said, causing charges of genocide and war crimes that Israel denied. I did.
The assaults internally displaced almost all of Gaza’s population, causing a hunger crisis.
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The latest bloodshed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict decades ago was caused when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages. It’s been done.
Rubio will discuss the aftermath of Gaza and Hamas attacks on Israel during his trip, pursuing Trump’s approach to disrupt the current situation in the region, State Department officials said last week.