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(250205) -- GAZA, Feb. 5, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian children are seen next to a tent that serves as temporary shelter at the Al-Yarmouk stadium in Gaza City, on Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
UN chief warns against ‘ethnic cleansing’ after Trump’s Gaza proposal
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, and a stern warning against “ethnic cleansing” from the head of the United Nations.It is vital to stay true to the bedrock of international law and avoid "any form of ethnic cleansing" in Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday.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, Guterres told a UN committee meeting."We have seen the realization of those rights steadily slip farther out of reach. We have seen a chilling, systematic dehumanization and demonization of an entire people," he said in remarks at the 2025 session of...
February 06, 2025

UN chief warns against ‘ethnic cleansing’ after Trump’s Gaza proposal

The devastating earthquakes killed more than 53,500 people in southern Turkey and over 5,500 in Syria
Left without a trace: Families search for missing children of Turkey's earthquake
ISTANBUL — Four-year-old Emir was at home with his family when two devastating earthquakes hit southern Turkey on 6 February 2023, claiming the lives of more than 53,500 people.The bodies of his mother, father and 10-year-old brother were found in the wreckage of their apartment block in Antakya, a city on the Syrian border.But there was no trace of him.Two years on, Emir is still missing. Dozens of families continue to search for their loved ones and at least 30 of the missing are children.Emir's aunt Nursen Kisa arrived at the collapsed building in Antakya an hour after the earthquake and waited beside the debris for over two weeks while search and rescue operations continued."We thought we could find him, or at least a piece of his clothing, some remains, some sort of a...
February 06, 2025

Left without a trace: Families search for missing children of Turkey's earthquake

Most of Gaza's 2.1 million population has been displaced by the 15-month war between Israel and Hamas
Palestinians and Arab states reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal
RAMALLAH — The Palestinian president has said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump's proposal for the US to take over Gaza and permanently resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there."We will not allow the rights of our people... to be infringed on," Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that Gaza was "an integral part of the State of Palestine" and forced displacement would be a serious violation of international law.Hamas, whose 15-month war with Israel has caused widespread devastation, said Trump's plan would "put oil on the fire" in the region.The idea was also rejected by regional powers including Jordan and Egypt, which the US president wants to take in many of the displaced Gazans.Saudi Arabia said Palestinians would "not...
February 06, 2025

Palestinians and Arab states reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal

Mahmoud Bahjat, who is living in a tent camp in central Gaza, says he and other Palestinians refuse to be resettled elsewhere
Palestinians express shock and defiance at Trump plan
JERUSALEM — For most Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip there is already a painful history of forced displacement that is at the heart of their response to US President Donald Trump's plan to take over the war-torn territory.Speaking to the BBC, residents of a tent camp in the central town of Deir al-Balah expressed shock and defiance at the idea of being permanently resettled outside."Even if it costs us our souls, we will not leave Gaza," said Mahmoud Bahjat, who is from the north. "We are against Trump's decision. He ended the war but displacing us would end our lives."On the other hand, many Israelis have been expressing satisfaction at the radical ideas from the White House, particularly those on the far-right who seek to resettle Gaza.Since a...
February 06, 2025

Palestinians express shock and defiance at Trump plan

Thousands of displaced Gazans are making their way back to what's left of their homes in the north
Trump's Gaza plan won't happen, but it will have consequences
By Jeremy BowenLONDON — Donald Trump's plan for the US to "take over" and "own" Gaza, resettling its population in the process, is not going to happen. It requires the co-operation of Arab states that have rejected it.They include Jordan and Egypt — countries that Trump wants to take in Gaza's Palestinians — and Saudi Arabia, which might be expected to foot the bill.Western allies of the US and Israel are also against the idea.Some — perhaps many — Palestinians in Gaza might be tempted to get out if they had the chance.But even if a million left, as many as 1.2 million others would still be there.Presumably the United States — the new owners of Trump's "Riviera of the Middle East" — would have to use force to remove them.After...
February 06, 2025

Trump's Gaza plan won't happen, but it will have consequences

President Donald Trump meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington
Trump's offer to 'take ownership' of Gaza draws international outrage
NEW YORK — US President Donald Trump's announcement on Tuesday that the US could "take over" the Gaza Strip after its population were permanently displaced to other countries has been condemned across the Middle East and beyond — and celebrated by members of Israel's cabinet.At a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Trump declared that "The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too."He said that Palestinians "can't live in Gaza right now" and that the enclave — which has been devastated by 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas — could be turned into the "Riviera of the Middle East".Trump said the decision was not "made lightly" and claimed that he had...
February 05, 2025

Trump's offer to 'take ownership' of Gaza draws international outrage

US President Donald Trump began speaking  of Gaza as a demolition site 10 days ago
Trump's Gaza takeover plan will be seen as flying in face of international law
WASHINGTON — When US President Donald Trump began speaking 10 days ago of Gaza as a demolition site, calling to "clean out that whole thing", it wasn't clear how far these were off-the-cuff remarks.But in the lead up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, in his Oval Office comments before the meeting, and in the press conference itself, it's now clear he is profoundly serious about his proposals.They amount to the most radical upending in the established US position on Israel and the Palestinians in the recent history of the conflict; and will be seen as flying in the face of international law.As well as how the announcement will be absorbed by ordinary people on the ground, it could also have a significant impact on the more immediate phased...
February 05, 2025

Trump's Gaza takeover plan will be seen as flying in face of international law

The famous leaning al-Hadba minaret was destroyed in the battle to liberate Mosul in 2017
Mosul's landmarks rise again after IS destruction
MOSUL, Iraq — Historic buildings in Mosul, including churches and mosques, are being reopened following years of devastation resulting from the Iraqi city's takeover by the extremist Islamic State (IS) group.The project, organised and funded by Unesco, began a year after IS was defeated and driven out of the city, in northern Iraq, in 2017.Unesco's director-general Audrey Azoulay and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani are attending a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the reopening.Local artisans, residents and representatives of all of Mosul's religious communities will also be there.In 2014, IS occupied Mosul, which for centuries was seen as a symbol of tolerance and co-existence between different religious and ethnic communities in Iraq.The group imposed its...
February 05, 2025

Mosul's landmarks rise again after IS destruction

A family rides in a horse-drawn cart past a destroyed mosque in Beit Lahia, Gaza, on January 29
Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and doesn’t rule out using American troops
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of more than a million to further displacement.“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said during a joint press conference alongside his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, later describing his vision for the area as a new “Riviera.”“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings,” he said.Asked whether he was...
February 05, 2025

Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and doesn’t rule out using American troops

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa ahead of meeting in presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025
Syria's president meets Erdoğan to discuss joint strategy to confront security threats
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed Syria’s president, Ahmad al-Sharaa at the presidential palace in Ankara in Turkey on Tuesday to discuss Syria’s economic recovery and its security and stability.At a joint press conference following the meeting at the presidential palace, Al-Sharaa said Turkey and Syria were planning a "joint strategy" to tackle security threats to both countries.“We discussed the threats that would prevent the unity of Syrian lands in northeastern Syria,” the former rebel leader said.One of the threats to Turkey are the presence of Kurdish-led forces in the north of Syria.Turkey views the Syrian Kurdish militias, who are part of the US-allied, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as an extension of the banned Kurdistan...
February 05, 2025

Syria's president meets Erdoğan to discuss joint strategy to confront security threats

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