Palestinians in London outraged by Trump’s Gaza strip ‘take over’ remarks

Fierce reaction after President Trump suggested the United States would take over the Gaza strip. CTV London’s Bryan Bicknell reports.

Members of London’s Palestinian community are outraged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks that the U.S. will take over the Gaza strip.

“And you turn something that could potentially lead to something peaceful. And now you’re turning back around to make it more violent. You know you’re calling for violence,” exclaimed Samah Al Sabbagh, a Londoner and member of the Canadian Palestinian Social Association.

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza strip. And we will do a good job with it too. We’ll own it,” Trump said on Tuesday while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.

Trump said that the U.S. would take over the Gaza strip and potentially use American troops to do it. The plan would involve displacing more than two million Palestinians living there while the territory is rebuilt as the ‘Riviera of the Middle East.’

“And now you think you have the right to come in and decide the fate of those people. It’s ridiculous, to be honest. It’s really ridiculous. That’s plainly what I think, it’s outrageous. It’s ridiculous to sit in a room, have a press conference, and just decide just by standing there, what is right and what is wrong,” said Al Sabbagh.

In the meantime, Al Sabbagh said her family and others in Gaza are slowly moving back to their war-ravaged homes and rebuilding - without the help of the U.S.