The United States and Israel approached the countries in East Africa around taking Palestinians from Gaza, as part of the plan of President Donald Trump to emigrate residents from war -torn enclaves and build “Riviera of the Middle East,” said three people familiar with the issue.
Israeli officials, headed by the Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, sounded the governments of Somalia and Sudan, countries related to the civil war, while US diplomats were in contact with the Somaliland Province, people said.
One said Israel was “in conversations” with countries around the world, including AfricaAbout Gazan taking, although they warned that conversations were “not so advanced right now.”
The US official reported to Washington’s initial contacts with the Presidency of Somaliland, said the discussions began with a possible de facto recognition agreement in exchange for establishing a military base near the Berber port on the Red Sea coast.
The person, who described the contacts as “the beginnings of the conversation,” said Washington raised the possibility of moving refugees from the USA -ai GauzeAlthough this was not the most important part of the conversation.
They said that the African team of Trump’s administration is not completely completely. “Until that is, these are very observed, initial contacts,” the person said.
The Associated Press for the first time reported contacts with the three Eastern African territories, and all were trapped in their own civic conflicts and faced high levels of poverty. This and widely widespread global opposition make up a large number of Palestinians extremely unlikely.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office refused to comment. State Department did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
First was the idea of switching most gauze 2 mn people from broken territory Raised Trump Last month, as part of his plan to take over the territory after 17 months of conflict between Hamas and Israel.
The whole vision, widespread around the world, has changed several times in intervening weeks. The American leader is not in line with whether Palestinians will be allowed to return to their homes in Gaza at all and whether he will arrange American troops.
At one point, he shared a video that generated AI on social networks showing Eklava as a gilded tourist central -full of casinos and clubs on the beach.
Arab states, European forces and Palestinian leaders all fiercely rejected any move to move Palestine. Sudan and Somalia are members of the Arab League, which also rejected any shift.
The Somali official told the Financial Times: “Gaza belongs to the Palestinians and will remain Palestinians. The position of Somalia is well recorded.”
Trump withdrew further on Wednesday, saying to reporters in the White House so “no one expelled any Palestinians”.
Arab states considered a plan to direct their national security and a violation of international law. This position was particularly strongly held by Egypt and Jordan, which were now developing as potential places of relocation of Palestinians.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly seized Trump’s plan, calling him “revolutionary” and “bold” and vowed to spend it.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense last month appointed the Directorate to Encourage the “Volunteer Emigration” of Gazans via land, air and sea, but the person familiar with the issue said that they did not take significant steps because of the failure of finding a country that is willing to take people.
According to local health authorities, nearly 50,000 people were killed in Gaza in Gaza, an angry military offensive, after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Much of the territory is reduced to ruins.
The fragile six-week truce between Israel and Hamas ended this month, and international intermediaries led by the US who now want to expand the truce and provide the release of almost 60 remaining Israeli hostages.
Former British Somaliland Protectorate declined from Somalia in 1991 after the fall of Siad Barre immersed Somalia into a civil war, but Somaliland was never recognized as an independent state.
Analysts said that Somaliland’s government could be tempted to acknowledge American recognition, but that any agreement involving Gazan refugees could destabilize the de facto state and strengthen the hand of Islamist stubborn people.
In an interview with Sky News Arabia last month, President Somaliland Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi Iro denied that his government had been interviewed with the US about the relocation of Palestinians and called for a decision with a consensus of support to the Arab peoples.
“Every thing of this size requires a comprehensive dialogue,” he said.
Matt Bryden, an expert on the horn of Africa, said: “A new leadership in Hargeisi [Somaliland’s capital] He is aware that public opinion would deeply opposed the depopulation of gauze.
“Somaliland’s government is ready to give huge victims in search of international recognition, but not necessarily at the expense of domestic stability and legitimacy.”
The person who met us at talking to Somaliland said Washington did not approach Sudan or Somalia. “Now they will make a complete overview of our Somalia policy,” they said, which could result in the interruption of financing and closing the US Embassy in Mogadishu. “So the idea of talking about anything important is funny.”
Analysts said that the contract with Sudan was also doubtful, given that the country was submitted by the Civil War that forced the Government to withdraw from the Khartoum capital to Port Sudan.
