After more than 15 months of cruel and uninterrupted genocidal escalation against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America condemn, as absolutely unacceptable, inhumane and in violation of International Law, the statements of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on the forced displacement of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and the alleged “takeover” of those territories by his country.

It is inadmissible that the U.S. government considers valid the process of ethnic cleansing carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people in their own historic lands. This proposal, which flagrantly violates the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, International Law and Human Rights in their entirety, is governed by the announced national security doctrine of the United States, which, in an unusual and extemporaneous manner, seeks to obtain economic loot, as a result of each military intervention, under the maxim of peace through strength.

The Gaza Strip is an essential part of the State of Palestine, together with the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, belongs to the Palestinians and only they have the full right to exist, to live and develop their economic potential in their territory, under the basic principle of self-determination of peoples and under the protection of the pertinent United Nations Resolutions. 

ALBA-TCP joins the unanimous rejection of the international community against these irresponsible, expansionist and fascist aspirations and expresses, once again, its full solidarity with the Palestinian people in their heroic resistance struggle against the genocide, the illegal Israeli occupation and in their inalienable right to their existence as an independent State and as a free people.

Caracas, February 6, 2025