Gaza restaurant owners vow to rebuild, Hamas says Gazans will not go anywhere

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Gaza's once-bustling coastal restaurants and hotels scene now stands in ruins after 15 months of war. But the operators remain determined to rebuild Gaza on their own despite a proposal by the United States to take over the job as a long-term solution to the Gaza conflict.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Restaurants and hotels along the coast of Gaza Strip are in ruins after 15 months of

00:11war.

00:13The operators and many residents there said they would rather stay put and rebuild their

00:18businesses and homes themselves, despite the U.S.'s proposal to take over Gaza's reconstruction.

00:25The Salam Restaurant is one of the landmarks, it's a masterpiece, and it's a very luxurious

00:33restaurant.

00:34It's one of the best restaurants.

00:36So today, for example, they say they want to change the restaurants, they want to change

00:42Gaza, they want to make a new history for Gaza.

00:45We remain Arabs, and the history of the Arabs cannot be changed by the history of the foreigners.

00:50We have a history of hundreds of years, and we are one of the oldest families in the Gaza

01:00Strip.

01:01I think that the fate of this project is failure.

01:05Why?

01:06Because since the occupation of Palestine in 1948, this project was proposed by the

01:12occupation and the countries that supported the occupation in the issue of the displacement

01:16of the residents of the Gaza Strip.

01:18But it was a failure.

01:19It was a failure in our people's steadfastness, in our people's confrontation with these

01:24displacement decisions, which were a failure.

01:27Of course, the occupation also failed in the displacement of the residents of the Gaza

01:31Strip during this war, the war of extermination, which began on October 7.

01:34This Hamas personnel said Palestinians will not move out of Gaza until the last drop

01:39of their blood, and their resistance will continue.

01:43We will not move until the last drop of our blood.

01:47During a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington,

01:52D.C. on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed to nations in the Middle East that

01:58Palestinians be relocated from Gaza temporarily as the United States could help rebuild Gaza

02:05with the help of the international community as a long-term solution to the Israel-Hamas

02:09conflict.

02:10We will do a job with it, too.

02:12We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs.

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