Muslim voters who voted for Trump to help fight for Palestinian feel they have been betrayed by Trump and the democrats have ignored them. Michigan Muslim are not happy with their decision to vote for Trump.
Summary of the day so far…
- Donald Trump said Palestinian people would have no right of return to Gaza under his US “takeover” plan, widely condemned as a proposal for ethnic cleansing.
- Hamas’ Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said on Monday that Donald Trump’s plans for the Gaza Strip were “doomed”. “We will bring them down as we brought down the projects before them,” he said.
- The IDF’s raid on the West Bank city o f Jenin , which has killed at least 25 Palestinian people, according to officials, is on its 21st consecutive day. Jenin’s assistant governor said Israeli forces have completely destroyed the city’s refugee camp, and displaced about 20,000 people from inside it.
- At least 48,208 Palestinian people have been killed and 111,655 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said. The ministry said that 19 dead people’s bodies were brought to Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours. Over this period, 15 injured people arrived at hospitals, it added.
- Palestinian groups monitoring arrests of Palestinians by Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank report that about 580 people were detained by Israeli forces during the month of January, including about 60 children and 17 women.
- Displaced Palestinian families who have returned to northern Gaza since the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect last month have been “shocked” by the “complete scale of destruction” of their homes and neighbourhoods, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund ( Unicef ).
We are closing this blog now. Thanks for following along. You can find all of our latest Middle East coverage here .Updated at 3.11pm GMT2.45pm GMTTrump said in the Fox interview that there could be as many as six different sites for Palestinians to live outside Gaza“I’m talking about building a permanent place for them because if they have to return now, it’ll be years before you could ever – it’s not habitable,” he told host Bret Baier.In the Fox interview – which will be broadcast Monday after the first half was screened ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday – Trump said he would build “beautiful communities” for the roughly 2.3 million Palestinians who live in Gaza.
No, they wouldn’t, because they’re going to have much better housing,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier when asked if the Palestinian people would have the right to return. “In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them.”Trump’s plan, which has been widely condemned by western and Arab allies, is premised on emptying Gaza of its residents , effectively a call for ethnic cleansing.Both Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Jordanian King Abdullah II dismissed Trump’s call to move large numbers of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents and for the US to take ownership of their homeland, but Trump claims that they would eventually accept it.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has said he is “against transfer and expulsion by force” of the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip.Lapid was being asked to respond to last week’s announcement by Donald Trump that the US will “take over” Gaza and “own it” , effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians while standing alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.The Times of Israel reports that Lapid said he did not believe that Trump’s proposal meant the forced removal of anybody, but that people who wished to leave the Palestinian territory would be able to do so.12.40pm GMTIsraeli ceasefire talks delegation returning from QatarAn Israeli delegation that was in Doha at the weekend for talks on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire is now returning from the Qatari capital, Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson has said, without providing further details.It comes a day after US President Donald Trump said he was losing patience with the ceasefire deal after seeing footage of Hamas release Israeli hostages over the weekend, whose appearance he compared to Holocaust survivors.“They look like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition. They were emaciated,” Trump told reporters. “I don’t know how much longer we can take that … at some point we’re going to lose our patience.”“I know we have a deal … they dribble in and keep dribbling in … but they are in really bad shape,” Trump said of the Israeli hostages.
