Abbas slams ‘delusional’ Trump over Gaza displacement plan

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday rejected any attempt to impose a new U.S.-backed peace proposal, warning that efforts to forcibly remove Palestinians from their land were “delusional.”

“Anyone who believes they can impose a new ‘Deal of the Century,’ displace our people and seize every inch of our land is delusional,” Abbas said in a speech at the African Union Summit in Ethiopia.

His remarks were seen as a direct rebuke of U.S. President Donald Trump, who in his previous term attempted to advance a peace plan involving territorial swaps and Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank.

Abbas accused Israel and settler groups of systematically undermining the two-state solution, saying, “These actions are carried out by the occupation forces and settler terrorist gangs, with the aim of dismantling the Palestinian Authority and burying the two-state solution.”