The Palestinian president has said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump's proposal for the US to take over Gaza and resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there.
"We will not allow the rights of our people... to be infringed on," Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that Gaza was "an integral part of the State of Palestine" and forced displacement would be a serious violation of international law.
Hamas, whose 15-month war with Israel has caused widespread devastation, said Trump's plan would "put oil on the fire" in the region.
The idea was also rejected by regional powers including Jordan and Egypt, which the US president wants to take in many of the displaced Gazans, and some key US allies.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Gaza was an integral part of a future Palestinian state, and warned against "any form of ethnic cleansing".
He told a meeting in New York the rights of Palestinians to live as human beings in their own land was slipping further out of reach. The world, he said, "has seen a chilling, systematic dehumanisation and demonisation of an entire people".
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