'Would you accept leaving your home to live in Egypt or China?' Gaza girl asks Trump

A young girl from Gaza posed a question to US President Donald Trump in response to his recent remarks about displacing Palestinians to transform the enclave into "the Riviera of the Middle East."

Maria Hanoun, "a child survivor of the Gaza war," hoped her video message would reach the US President as she questioned him on his controversial plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza.

"If I asked you to leave your home and your land and live in Egypt or China, would you accept that?" Maria asked.

"I'm sorry for laughing, but in reality, you won’t accept that," she added.

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Filming her message from amidst the rubble in Gaza, Maria continued, “If you yourself would refuse, why would you want to force me to leave my house and my land?”

"Aren’t you supposed to be the country of freedom in the world?" 

Maria went on to question the nature of the freedom the US claims to champion, asking, what freedom does the US promote that it wants to remove Palestinians from their own homeland

She concluded her message with a powerful statement, "You can control the whole world, except for Gaza because Gaza is the world."

While US President Donald Trump’s remarks about the "takeover" of Gaza sparked global outrage, the United Nations also sounded the alarm over his controversial statement, emphasising the need to "avoid ethnic cleansing."

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During a UN committee meeting, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated, "In the search for solutions, we must not make the problem worse. It is vital to stay true to the bedrock of international law. It is essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing."

He also underscored the importance of pursuing a two-state solution for Palestine.

European countries, along with the Arab allies of the US in the Middle East, strongly condemned Trump’s remarks, particularly his suggestion of removing Palestinians from Gaza to build a riviera in the region.

On Wednesday, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and made several controversial statements about Gaza during a press conference.

 “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. 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, level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area … do a real job, do something different,” Trump  said.