“We are staying here and dying here.”

With these words, Rashad Mansour rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to take over Gaza and create a “Riviera of the Middle East” after resettling Palestinians elsewhere.

The Palestinian man, born in 1946, was only a toddler when he was displaced with his family to Gaza during the “Nakba”, or catastrophe, along with hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians who were expelled or fled their homeland around the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

He will not leave his homeland again, he said.

“We want to stay in our land and our home country,” he said. “We reject all these calls for us to leave and become displaced.”

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