Egypt, Jordan’s leaders reject Trump’s proposal to take over Palestinians | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi says “the displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice” after the US president repeats the invitation to Egypt and Jordan to accept the inhabitants of Gaza.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and King Abdullah King Abdullah rejected every forcible displacement of the Palestinians, a few days after Donald Trump’s president Donald Trump suggested that the Arab countries in Palestinians were taking war torn strips of gauze.
“As for what is being said about the displacement of Palestinians, it can never be tolerated or allowed because of its influence on Egyptian national security,” El-Sisi said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“The deportation or dispute of the Palestinian people is an injustice in which we cannot participate,” he said.
Later on Wednesday, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Palestinians must remain on their land.
During the meetings in Brussels, the King emphasized “Jordan’s solid position on the need to hold Palestine on their country and guarantee their legitimate rights, in accordance with the Israeli and Palestinian solutions with two countries,” the Royal Palace statement said.
Almost all 2.2 million Gaza residents have been displaced from their homes at least once since Israel launched its war in the territory in October 2023 in response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel.
The Israeli war against Gaza killed more than 47,400 people, according to the Palestinian health authorities, and destroyed most of the Gaza civilian infrastructure.
After Israel-Hamas cessation of fire entered into force earlier this month, Trump Advertised the plan To “clean up” the gaza belt and move their residents to Jordan and Egypt. He returned to the idea this week, urging Palestinians to move to “safer” locations like Egypt or Jordan.
The movement of the Gaza residents could be done “temporarily or could be in the long run,” he said.
But the idea of the relocation of Palestinians has long been rejected by Palestinians and regional countries, who say this would undermine the notion of Palestinian statehood and instability in the Middle East.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safada also rejected Trump’s proposal, saying “Jordan is for Jordanci and Palestine for Palestinians.”
Fear of displacement
El-Sisi said his government would cooperate with Trump’s administration to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine “based on a solution with two countries.”
“The solution … is the establishment of the Palestinian state,” El-Sisi said. “The solution is not the removal of the Palestinian people from their place.”
Displacement It was a recurrent topic in Palestinian history, and the residents of Gaza fears that if they leave, they will never allow themselves to return.
From the beginning of the Israeli 15-month war against Gaza, Arab countries have repeatedly warned of any plans for pushing Palestinians to neighboring countries, saying that such a move would be reminiscent of Nakbu in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced during the fighting which surrounded the creation of the Israeli state.
Egypt and Jordan have peace agreements with Israel, and also support the creation of the Palestinian state on the occupied west coast, Gazi and East Jerusalem. They are afraid that the permanent displacement of the Gaza population could make it difficult for a future situation.
Egypt and Jordan are key American allies in the Middle East and the recipients of US assistance. US $ 1.3 billion a year aim to Egypt was a exempted From US freezing financing to global assistance programs this week.
