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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
PA’s UN envoy: Leaders ‘should respect’ wishes of Palestinians to stay in Gaza
World leaders and people should respect Palestinians’ desire to remain in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority envoy to the United Nations says, after US President Donald Trump said he believed people from the territory should be resettled elsewhere “permanently.”
“Our homeland is our homeland, if part of it is destroyed, the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people selected the choice to return to it,” says Riyad Mansour. “And I think that leaders and people should respect the wishes of the Palestinian people.”