Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said that his country "categorically rejects" US President Donald Trump's plan to seize the Gaza Strip and displace Palestinians from it.

"No one should enter into a discussion of where the Palestinians, especially the people of Gaza, should go. The people of Gaza themselves have closed this discussion," Albares told state radio RNE on Thursday.

He added: "We categorically reject this matter... The land of the Palestinians who live in Gaza is Gaza."

He explained that "Gaza is part of the future of the State of Palestine," stressing that "this is what most of the world believes, including Spain and about 150 countries that recognize the State of Palestine."

On Tuesday evening, Trump revealed during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House his intention to seize the Gaza Strip and displace the Palestinians from it, which sparked widespread regional and international rejection.

Since January 25, Trump has been promoting a plan to transfer the Palestinians of Gaza to neighboring countries such as Egypt and Jordan, which was rejected by both countries, and was joined by other Arab countries and regional and international organizations.

On January 19, a ceasefire agreement began in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel. It includes three stages, each lasting 42 days. During the first, negotiations will be held to start the second and third, with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar and the support of the United States.

With American support, between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, Israel committed genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 159,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.