British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said today that Palestinians should be able to return home and rebuild the Gaza Strip, which is in ruins after 15 months of war between Israeli forces and the Palestinian Hamas movement.
Starmer was reacting to US President Donald Trump's proposal to relocate Palestinians.
"They (Palestinians) must be able to return to their homes, to rebuild them, and we must be with them in that rebuilding, on the path to a two-state solution (Israel and Palestine)," Starmer said in parliament when asked about the US president's plan to displace the Gaza Strip and turn it into a US-administered territory.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said earlier today during a trip to Kiev that Palestinians should be able to "live and prosper in their own territories, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."
"We all need to ensure a future for the Palestinians, in their territories," Lamy said, adding that Trump is only right when he says that the Gaza Strip is in ruins.
The US president announced a plan to take control of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, after hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
Trump reiterated that Gaza residents could be relocated to Jordan or Egypt, despite opposition from those countries and the Palestinians themselves.
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