United States President Donald Trump set off alarm bells this month when, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, he said the US would “take control” of the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians in other countries, Al Jazeera reports.

Trump framed the expulsion of the Palestinian population from the Strip — left unrecognisable by Israeli bombing — as an act of humanitarian necessity, citing the threat of unexploded ordnance and unstable structures.

Palestinians should be able to live in “beautiful houses”, Trump added. Just not in Gaza itself.

But Palestinians say the promise of new developments in foreign countries skirts the demand at the centre of their aspirations: the right to live with dignity and equal rights in their historic homeland.

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