The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) strongly condemns the racist and dangerous statements made by U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he called for the displacement of Gaza’s residents to another Middle Eastern country, and proposed turning Gaza into a “free zone” managed according to his administration’s vision—devoid of any Palestinian national representation.
These statements, which align with reports from NBC News revealing that Trump’s administration has a plan to relocate nearly one million Palestinians from Gaza to Libya, reflect a sick colonial mentality. It evokes the memory of past displacement, Nakba, and uprooting projects that our people have suffered since 1948. It is the same mindset historically practiced by the United States through policies of extermination and expulsion targeting the Indigenous peoples of North America—within a settler-colonial project rooted in erasing native populations and seizing land by force.
We affirm to President Trump—and to all near and far—that our people have no homeland but Palestine, no future outside it, and Gaza will never be a station for exile or liquidation.
All displacement schemes are doomed to catastrophic failure. Our people—who have sacrificed thousands of martyrs and have demonstrated steadfastness against the most brutal colonial machinery—will go nowhere but to their occupied towns and villages in historic Palestine after liberation and the expulsion of the occupation.
The call to administer Gaza outside Palestinian sovereignty and governance is a desperate attempt to impose a liquidationist project aimed at separating the Strip from the rest of the homeland and dismantling the Palestinian cause entirely. We categorically reject this and will resist it with full force.
We call upon our people, our nation, and the free people of the world to confront these schemes by all possible means, and to reaffirm that Gaza is an inseparable part of Palestine—and no one has the right to decide its fate except its own people.
To Trump and those orbiting in his sphere, we say: The arrogant “cowboy” mindset that views nations as mere subjects to be relocated or have their fates dictated will never succeed in subjugating or uprooting our people. This supremacist, racist mentality that treats the struggles of nations like real estate deals or business ventures has failed throughout history—and it will fail again against the rock of Palestinian steadfastness. Our people have never bowed, and will never bow. They will remain steadfast, clinging to their right of return, liberation, and self-determination—despite Trump, the occupation, and their collaborators.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
17 May 2025