Before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House, US President Donald Trump said that the Palestinians “have no alternative” but to leave Gaza. When the two leaders met at the Oval Office, Trump announced that after the Palestinians were transferred from the Gaza Strip to another place, the United States will take over. The President also expressed his desire to convert the lands occupied by Israel into “Riviera in the Middle East.”

These surrealist statements were pronounced on Tuesday, as the Palestinians through the Gaza Strip face an unprecedented destruction behind the Israeli army. Many of those who have been displaced and managed to return to their homes in the past two weeks have only found ruins. According to the United Nations, the Israeli army bombed 90 percent of everyone Housing units In the Gaza Strip, leaving 160,000 units that were destroyed and 276,000 severely or partially damaged.

With the stability of dust and images of the extent of the destruction that is circulating on the main media, it became clear that the Apple violence of Israel launched by Israel in Gaza was not only used to kill, supply and destroy the right of the Palestinian population to survive. It is precisely the possibility of securing this right that the Trump Niaho duo is now bowing to prevent it.

It remains right

The right to remain officially recognized within the law of human rights, is usually associated with the refugees who fled their country and allowed them to stay in a host country while searching for asylum. It was also summoned in the context of the so -called urban renewal projects, as the residents of the Hadith are largely marginalized and present to be safe to remain in their homes and among their community when they face pressure from strong actors who lead to redevelopment and improvement. The right to remain in particular is an urgent matter in the colonial positions of the settlers, as the colonists resolve the activity of the indigenous people and try to replace them with the settlers. From the first nations in North America to the inhabitants of the indigenous people of the Population and Torres in Australia, the settlers used the genocide of genocide to deprive the indigenous people of this right.

However, the right to stay is not only the right to “stay”. Instead, to enjoy this right, people must be able to stay within their society and reach the “material and social infrastructure”, including water, food, hospitals, schools, places of worship and means of ways to live. Without these infrastructure, the right to stay is impossible.

In addition to just a physical existence, the right to stay also includes the right to preserve history and contemporary Stories and networks of relationships That brings people and societies together in place and time. This is a decisive aspect of this right because the colonial project of the settlers not only aims to remove physical and replace the indigenous population, but also seeks to erase cultures, history, original identities and any land attachments. Finally, it cannot be sufficient to stay as an occupied population inside a besieged area. The right to remain the ability of people to determine their fate.

The date of permanent displacement

During the 1948 war, Palestinian cities and about 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed, as most of its population became refugees in neighboring countries. In total, about 750,000 Palestinians were displaced out of 900,000 of their homes and the lands of their ancestors and were not allowed to return. Since then, displacement or threat of displacement has been part of the daily Palestinian experience. In fact, throughout the occupied West Bank and even within Israel in places like Umm Hiran, Palestinian societies are still besieging and removing them from their lands and preventing them from returning.

The Israeli-backed Israeli denial of the right to stay in the Gaza Strip is much worse-not only because many societies consist of refugees and this is the second, third or fourth displacement-but also because the displacement is now the tool of genocide. Early October 13, 2023, Israel issued a collective order to evacuate to 1.1 million Palestinians living in the north of the Gaza Valley, and in the following months, similar orders were issued repeatedly, ultimately resulted in the displacement of 90 percent of the residents of the tape.

Certainly, international humanitarian law obliges the warring parties to protect the civilian population, including allowing them to move from the two wars to safe areas. However, these rulings are informed by assuming that the population has the right to stay in their homes, and therefore, they are given that the preachers be allowed to return when the fighting ends, which makes any form of permanent displacement illegal. Population transport should be temporary and can only be used for humanitarian protection and relief, not, as Israel used and promoting Trump’s recent comments, “Human camouflageTo cover up the destruction of the sentence and retract the Palestinian areas.

The right to survive and self -determination

Now the ceasefire has been declared, the displaced Palestinians can return to where they were living. However, this movement returns in any way that satisfies their right to survive. This is not a coincidence: the ability to stay is exactly what Israel aims to eliminate in 15 months of war.

The process of integrating hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, stores, street markets, cemeteries and libraries has not been implemented, as well as destroying roads, wells, electricity networks, homes and hunting ships only in the service of mass killings and temporary purification of their residents, but also to create a new fact on the ground, especially in northern Gaza. Thus, it is not only that the Palestinian homes have been destroyed, but the presence of the population will now be at risk for years to come.

This is not a new thing. We have seen throughout history how settlers work to remove and remove the indigenous people permanently from their lands. Learning from these stories, we know that financial investment in rebuilding homes and infrastructure will not in itself the right to survive. The rest requires self -determination. Not their right to survive, the Palestinians must finally acquire their freedom as people who determine the self.

Israel has forbidden the Palestinians to survive for more than 75 years. It is time to adjust things straight. Any discussion on the future of Gaza must be guided by the demands and aspirations of the Palestinian people. Promises of reconstruction and economic prosperity by foreign countries is not related unless it is explicitly linked to the report of the Palestinian destiny. The right to survive can only be guaranteed by ending Palestinian colonialism and liberation.

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