RAMALLAH, Palestine

A senior Palestinian official on Wednesday rejected calls for Palestinian resettlement, after US President Donald Trump suggested taking over the Gaza Strip.

Trump said during a press conference in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Tuesday that the US “will take over” Gaza after relocating Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

"The two-state solution in accordance with international legitimacy and international law is the guarantee for security, stability and peace,” Hussein al-Sheikh, Secretary-General of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said in a statement.

“The Palestinian leadership affirms its rejection of all calls for the displacement of the Palestinian people from their homeland,” he added.

Earlier this month, Trump triggered uproar by suggesting that Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt, calling the enclave a “demolition site” after Israel’s war. His proposal, however, was vehemently rejected by Amman and Cairo.

A six-nation Arab ministerial meeting in Cairo on Saturday firmly rejected Palestinian displacement from Gaza and renewed calls for implementing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Trump’s proposal came after the ceasefire agreement took effect in Gaza on Jan. 19, suspending Israel’s genocidal war that has killed more than 47,500 Palestinians and left the enclave in ruins.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants in November last year for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.