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David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, has rejected a plan announced by Donald Trump, the US President, to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in a takeover of the land by the United States. Trump, speaking at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the Gaza Strip area needed rebuilding and it could be “the Riviera of the Middle East”. The UK, Australia, Russia, China, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and a growing number of other countries have rejected the proposals.
Lammy, speaking in Ukraine, said:
“We’ve always been clear in our belief that we must see two states. We must see Palestinians live and prosper in their homelands in Gaza and the West Bank”.