United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the U.S. leader proposed Palestinians resettle elsewhere and the United States take over the war-torn enclave.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned the US president against ethnic cleansing in Gaza after Mr Trump proposed the US takes over the enclave.

Reiterating the UN's full commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Guterres called on the international community to work toward preserving the unity, contiguity, and integrity of the occupied Palestinian territory and the recovery and reconstruction of Gaza.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will warn against "ethnic cleansing" in Gaza over US President Donald Trump's suggestion, his spokesman has said.

The United Nations have rejected US President Donald Trump's proposal to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, saying that "any forced displacement of people is tantamount to ethnic cleansing." Quoting from a speech UN Secretary General António Guterres is set to make later on Wednesday,

President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and develop faces some major obstacle