Hamas calls for emergency Arab summit after Trump says US will take control of Gaza

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem warns that US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and displace its people was a “declaration of intent to occupy” the Palestinian territory.

Dismissing Trump’s comments as “absolutely unacceptable,” Qassem says the terror group is calling for “the convening of an emergency Arab summit to confront the displacement project.”

“Gaza is for its people and they will not leave,” he says.

“Trump’s remarks about Washington taking control of Gaza amount to an open declaration of intent to occupy the territory,” Qassem adds. “We do not need any country to run the Gaza Strip and we do not accept replacing one occupation with another.

“We call on the Arab peoples and international organizations to take strong action to reject the Trump project.”