Foreign secretary says US president is right on need for rebuilding but says ‘Palestinians must be able to live and prosper in homelands’And Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s former first minister, whose parents-in-law were trapped in Gaza for a number of weeks in 2023 after the 7 October Hamas massacre tiggered war, has also described President Trump’s plan as “ethnic cleansing”.In a post on social media commenting on what Trump said during his White House press conference, Yousaf said:Why is it a living hell? Who bombed it, killing tens of thousands of people, including children, and reduced Gaza to rubble?Also, what Trump calls “permanent resettlement” is what the rest of the world should call ethnic cleansing.After months of collective punishment and the death of over 40,000 in Gaza, any suggestion Palestinians should be removed from their home is unacceptable and dangerous.There must be no ethnic cleansing. Continue reading...
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