7 hours agoTrump insists on moving Palestinians from Gaza
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(a year ago)US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that Egypt and Jordan will accept residents expelled from Gaza, though these two Arab states rejected the plan to move Palestinians from their territory. The American leader's comments came a day after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Ass and Jordanian King Abdullah II rejected [...]
The American leader's comments came a day after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Ass and Jordanian King Abdullah II rejected any possibility of forcibly shifting Gaza residents after the war between Hamas and Israel.
They'll do it. They will. We're doing a lot for them, and they're going to do”, the 78-year-old told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about Egypt and Jordan's response and if they were to consider putting taxes on any place to encourage them to accept the plan.
After reaching the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on January 19th, Trump presented a plan for “cleansing” of the Gaza Belt and for the shift of Palestinians to the secure “ “locations as Egypt or Jordan. He said the 15-month war had turned Palestinian territory into a “destruction”.
Trump's representative for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, visited Gaza this week, as the White House announced, to support the fragile ceasefire. He also met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, writes Aljazeera.
Egyptian President Sisi, a key ally of the United States, said Wednesday in the first public response to Trump's comments that the removal of the Palestinian “people from his land is injustice in which we cannot participate”.
Jordanian King Abdullah II singled out his country's strong “position for the need to preserve Palestinians on their land”.
From the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October 2023, Egypt and Jordan have warned against plans to move Palestinians from Gaza and the West Coast beyond their borders. /Telegraph
