LONDON (AP) — Professional-Palestinian activists mentioned Saturday they’ve vandalized one in all U.S. President Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Scotland in response to his proposal to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian inhabitants.
Activists focused Trump’s Turnberry golf course and lodge in southwest Scotland in a single day, portray “Gaza Is Not For Sale” in big letters on the garden and utilizing crimson spray paint on the membership home’s exterior wall.
The group Palestine Motion mentioned it “rejects Donald Trump’s therapy of Gaza as if it have been his property to get rid of as he likes.”
“To make that clear, we’ve proven him that his personal property is just not protected from acts of resistance,” it mentioned in a press release.
Police Scotland mentioned it acquired a report of harm to the golf course within the early hours of Saturday, and that inquiries are ongoing.
Trump Turnberry referred to as the activism a “infantile, prison act” and mentioned it would guarantee it doesn’t have an effect on its enterprise.
The way forward for Gaza is unsure as the primary part of a ceasefire that paused the 15-month conflict between Israel and Hamas ended with no readability on what would come subsequent as a result of the settlement’s second part has not but been hammered out.
In the meantime, Trump has referred to as for Gaza’s inhabitants to be resettled elsewhere completely in order that the USA can take over the territory and develop it for others. Palestinians have roundly rejected calls to go away.
Turnberry is one in all 10 programs on the rotation to host the British Open, the oldest of the 4 main championships in males’s golf.
Nevertheless, it hasn’t staged the occasion since Trump purchased the course in 2014 and renovated a number of holes.
In November, Martin Slumbers, who at the moment was the chief govt of British Open organizer the R&A, mentioned there have been no rapid plans for the occasion to return to Turnberry.
