Hamas responds to Trump’s remarks on “buying, owning Gaza”

US President Donald Trump’s recent statements on buying and owning the Gaza Strip are “absurd” and a reflection of “profound ignorance about Palestine and the region,” Hamas said in a statement issued Monday morning.

Gaza is “not a piece of real estate to be bought and sold but an inseparable part of the occupied Palestinian territory,” the movement further asserted, adding that dealing with the Palestinian cause with a “real estate dealer’s mindset” shows a "fundamental failure to understand the conflict.”

Hamas warned that the Palestinian people will thwart all attempts at displacement and forced relocation, saying they will only leave it “to return to their cities and villages occupied in 1948.”