JAKARTA - The Vatican's top diplomat on Thursday criticized the United States President' plan to permanently move the Gaza Strip resident and take over the Palestinian enclave.

Vatican Foreign Minister Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Palestinians should be allowed to remain in their territory.

"There is no deportation, and this is one of the basic points," he said at an event in Rome on Thursday evening.

"Anyone born and living in Gaza must remain on their land," he stressed according to the official Vatican news agency.

Cardinal Parolin reiterated the Vatican's longstanding call on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Arab world has voiced outrage, and European countries are deeply concerned over Trump's proposal for Palestinians to be permanently removed from Gaza in order to be developed as a seaside resort property under the control of Uncle Sam's country.

Kardonal Parolin's remarks came two days after Pope Francis also sharply criticized President Trump's administration, by issuing an unusual open letter to rebuke recent crackdown on immigrants living in the US.

Pope Francis, who last month called President Trump's plan to deport millions of migrants as "aib", said it was wrong to assume all undocumented immigrants were criminals.

"What is built on the basis of violence, and not on the truth of the same dignity of every human being, starts badly and will end badly," he said in the open letter.


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