Mansour Abo Kareem stood in front of piles of rubble where his home used to be and condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to permanently expel all Palestinian from Gaza. “I am against migrating,” he said, staring into his nephew’s camera. “This is our land and we want to live in peace.”
He was responding to Trump’s suggestion at a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. should take over the Gaza Strip and displace Palestinian residents to “other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts,” such as Jordan and Egypt.
“We have not yet emerged from the mass war of extermination waged by Israel and Trump comes and says that he wants the entire population to leave to unknown places,” said Abo Kareem, a 44-year-old professor and political researcher who spends his days recording lectures for students remotely and writing articles and…