Rejected powerful Arabic nations Proposal of President Trump to move Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Administration and the Arab League published a joint statement that rejected any plans to move Palestinians from their territories in Gaza and occupied west coast.
Mr. Trump told reporters last month that he would call the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to take over Gaza -mostly the homeless population and that rejection of about 1.5 million people could mean that “let’s” just clean up the whole thing “.
Mr. Trump conveyed what he told Jordan’s King Abdullah when the two of them held a call last Saturday: “I told him,” I would like you to take over more because I am currently looking at the whole gaza belt, and that is a mess. “”
“It’s a literal place to demolish right now,” Trump said, calling on to huge destruction caused by the Israeli 15-month war with Hamas, now paused with a fragile truce.
Mr. Trump said that during the interview last week he earned a similar appeal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi. He said he would “love Egypt take people and I wish Jordan would take people.”
Earlier this week, Egypt, Hamas and Jordan, as well as several European countries rejected Mr. Trump’s proposal.
On Saturday, the Arab statement came after a meeting in Cairo from top diplomats from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as Hussein al-Eikh, a senior Palestinian official serving as a major relationship with Israel, and the Arab League Boss Ahmed Aboul-gheit.
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The Arab statement warned that such plans “threatened the stability of the region, risk conflict and undermine the prospects for peace and coexistence among their peoples.”
Arab diplomats said that they were looking forward to cooperating with Trump’s administration on “achieving a righteous and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, based on a solution for two countries,” the statement said.
They invited the international community to help the “plan and implementation” comprehensive gauze renewal plan to ensure that the Palestinians stay on their land.
Egypt and Jordan, along with the Palestinians, worry that Israel will never allow them to return to Gaza after leaving. Egypt and Jordan are also afraid of the influence of any such influx of refugees on their combat economy, as well as the stability of their governments.
Jordan is already home to more than 2 million Palestinians. Egypt alerted the security implications of the transfer of a large number of Palestinians to the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, which borders Gaza.
Both countries were the first to make peace with Israel, but support the creation of the Palestinian state on the occupied west coast, Gazi and East Jerusalem, the territory that Israel captured in the war of Midseast in 1967.
