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Leaders 'Should Respect' Wishes Of Palestinians To Stay In Gaza: Palestinian UN Envoy

United Nations Donald Trump Gaza Riyad Mansour Hamas United States Israel
The UN says more than 1.9 million people -- or 90 percent of Gaza's population -- have been displaced by Israel's offensive (Credit: AFP)

World leaders and people should respect Palestinians' desire to remain in Gaza, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump said he believed people from the territory should be resettled elsewhere "permanently."

"Our homeland is our homeland, if part of it is destroyed, the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people selected the choice to return to it," said Riyad Mansour. "And I think that leaders and people should respect the wishes of the Palestinian people."

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