Impeach Trump over Gaza ‘ethnic cleansing’ plans, US lawmaker says

US congressman Al Green yesterday slammed remarks of President Donald Trump and the Israeli premier about the Gaza Strip, calling for the president to be impeached.

“Ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not a joke, especially when it emanates from the President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world,” Green said on the floor of the House of Representatives.

His remarks came one day after Trump said at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US “will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too.” He added that Palestinians living in the enclave would be moved to Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere, while Gaza was cleared up and transformed to the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

“Ethnic cleansing and Gaza is no joke, and the Prime Minister of Israel should be ashamed knowing the history of his people to stand there and allow such things to be said,” said Green.

Ethnic cleansing has been a crime against humanity, the lawmaker stressed and denounced what Trump and Netanyahu said during the news conference.

“Injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America.”

“I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the president has begun. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done,” he said.

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