{"id":6317,"date":"2025-02-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2025-04-17T01:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:25:01","slug":"israel-opt-president-trumps-claim-that-us-will-take-over-gaza-and-forcibly-deport-palestinians-appalling-and-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/news\/2025\/02\/israel-opt-president-trumps-claim-that-us-will-take-over-gaza-and-forcibly-deport-palestinians-appalling-and-unlawful\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\/ OPT: President Trump\u2019s claim that US will take over Gaza and forcibly deport Palestinians appalling and unlawful"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reacting to President Donald Trump\u2019s comments that the USA will \u201ctake over the Gaza Strip\u201d, advocating again for the forcible transfer of around 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries, Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General Agn\u00e8s Callamard said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s remarks calling for the forcible transfer of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip must be unequivocally and widely condemned. His language is inflammatory, outrageous and shameful, and his proposal amounts to a flagrant violation of international law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAny plan to forcibly deport Palestinians outside the occupied territory against their will is a war crime, and when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack on the civilian population, it would constitute a crime against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAny plan to forcibly deport Palestinians outside the occupied territory against their will is a war crime, and when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack on the civilian population, it would constitute a crime against humanity\u201d \u2013\u00a0Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General Agn\u00e8s Callamard<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s comments dangerously dehumanize Palestinians, who for the last 16-months have been victims of Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza, and for decades have been living under illegal occupation and apartheid. Most of Gaza\u2019s Palestinians are descendants and survivors of the 1948 Nakba, they have already been repeatedly uprooted and dispossessed by Israel and denied their right of return yet have continued to struggle to remain on their lands and defend their human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIsrael\u2019s genocide in Gaza, including through unlawful killings, injuries and the deliberate infliction of conditions of life that are calculated to bring about their physical destruction, has been accompanied by an alarming rise in unlawful killings in the occupied West Bank, state-backed settler violence, mass land confiscation and arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment of Palestinians across the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s comments dangerously dehumanize Palestinians, who for the last 16-months have been victims of Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza, and for decades have been living under illegal occupation and apartheid\u201d \u2013\u00a0Agn\u00e8s Callamard<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump repeatedly referenced the destruction, killing and unlivable conditions in Gaza calling it a \u2018demolition site\u2019 while seated next to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, yet he completely failed to mention the Israeli government\u2019s responsibility for causing this devastation. Nor did he acknowledge the US government\u2019s role in providing arms that have repeatedly been used to carry out deadly, unlawful attacks in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the face of President Trump\u2019s dangerous threats, it\u2019s more important than ever for the rest of the international community to categorically reject these proposals and expedite diplomatic efforts, in line with international law, to end Israel\u2019s unlawful occupation, dismantle apartheid and uphold human rights for Palestinians and Israelis. History has abundantly demonstrated that sidelining international law for political expediency is a recipe for the perpetuation of violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmnesty International also warns against the misuse of desperately needed humanitarian aid and reconstruction as a bargaining chip or as a means to coerce Palestinians in Gaza into leaving. No state is entitled to treat a protected population living under occupation as pawns in a geopolitical chess game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reacting to President Donald Trump\u2019s comments that the USA will \u201ctake over the Gaza Strip\u201d, advocating again for the forcible transfer of around 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries, Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General Agn\u00e8s Callamard said: \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s remarks calling for the forcible transfer of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip must be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":0,"_hero_title":"","_hero_content":"","_hero_cta_text":"","_hero_cta_link":"","_hero_alignment":"","_hero_background":"","_hero_size":"","_hero_show":"","_hero_type":"","_hero_embed":"","_hero_video_id":0,"_hero_hide_image_caption":true,"_hero_hide_image_copyright":false,"_nav_style":"","_disable_share_icons":false,"_disable_sidebar":false,"_display_author_info":false,"_hide_featured_image":false,"_hide_featured_image_caption":true,"_maximize_post_content":false,"_reduce_content_width":false,"_sidebar_id":0,"_stretch_thumbnail":false,"byline_context":"","byline_entity":"","byline_is_author":false,"disable_related_content":false,"download_id":0,"download_text":"","show_published_date":true,"show_updated_date":true,"term_slider":"","amnesty_index_number":"","recipients":"","recipients_refresh":"","recipients_refreshed":"","amnesty_umbraco_data":"","document_ref":"","amnesty_updated":"","footnotes":""},"category":[1585],"location":[1589],"resourceType":[1641],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","location-world","resource-type-public-statement-quote-press-release"],"datePosted":"February 6, 2025","mlpRelationships":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourceType?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}