Now, Israel interested in Sudan, Somalia and Syria for the relocation of Gazans, sources say

Trump’s administration and Israel joined the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and were also interested in Syria, as a potential place to move Palestinians from Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the efforts.

The idea of ​​Palestinian movement in another country is one of several options that Trump’s team chews as part of a larger goal of the US president to end Israeli war with Hamas in Gaza and the reconstruction of the devastated Palestinian enclave.

“No one expires any Palestinians,” President Trump said on Wednesday, when the Irish prime minister was requested during a meeting of the Taval Office of two leaders to a journalist for the Voice of America on the controversial remarks of the President in February, when he suggested to take over the ownership of Gaza to renew him.

Mr. Trump gave comments during a press conference on February 4, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that Gaza could be “Riviera from the Middle East.“

“We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and many of them want to do so and build different domains that will ultimately be occupied by 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending death and destruction,” said Mr. Trump.

The combination of Israeli and US officials announced to Sudan and Somali, two diplomatic sources were confirmed by CBS News. Higher Extreme Gentiles Israeli Government officials They already called To migrate Palestinians from the enclave. Mr. Trump’s remarks only strengthened Israel to turn to other countries to explore the possibilities for Palestinian relocation, one source said.

Three sources familiar with the idea of ​​Mr. Trump about the relocation of Gazan to another country told CBS News that his administration and Israel were also interested in Syria. One source familiar with the policy of Trump’s administration in the Middle East said the administration tried to reach a new temporary government in Syria through the interlocutor of the third party. The second source of the region told the CBS News that the Syrian government had approached, but it was not clear if there was any response from Syria to the reach.

Senior Syrian official said to CBS News that they are not aware of any reach of their government by Israel or now -the relocation of the Gazans.

Dahir Hassan, Ambassador of Somalia in the United States, told CBS News that “neither the US administration nor the Israeli authorities joined the Somalian government regarding any proposed relocation of Palestinians in Somali.” Hassan also cited the concern that “spreading such unverified information risks to stimulate employment propaganda for extremist groups such as ISIS and Al-Shabaab, which potentially exacerbates security challenges in the region.”

The Sudanese government did not respond to the CBS News request for comment.

Syrian new temporary government is only three months old after overturned Bashar al-Assad and his brutal regime, which for decades held an iron hand over the Syrian people. Arab northeast African nation of Sudan is currently embedded in a civil war and a refugee crisis while suffering pockets from hunger. Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees have requested an asylum in Israel in the last two decades, only to be detained in detention centers with headquarters in the desert or left to live without any formal status. The East African State of Somalia is a fragile, previously unsuccessful country in which the militant Islamist group of Al-Shabaab continues with the leadership of the deadly rebellion.

Since his press conference on February 4, Mr. Trump has suggested that Palestinians will have a choice of whether he will leave, but also indicated that their departure from Gaza could be lasting. In a An interview with Fox News A few days later, he said: “We will build beautiful communities, safe communities, it could be five, six, it could be two. But we will build safe communities little from where they are (Palestinians).” In the same interview, he said Palestinians would not have the right to return to Gaza under their plan, because the enclave “is not immigration” and will not be for years to come.

United Nations reported in January that over 90% of residential units in gauze is either damaged or destroyed, and 1.9 million gazal civilians have been displaced. The Ministry of Health in Gaza says that more than 48,000 Palestinians were killed in the war between Israel and Hamas, which began after October 7, 2023, a terrorist attack in which Hamas killed more than 1,000 Israelis and took about 100 soils.

More Arab governments, the United Nations and some democratic legislators quickly denied the idea of ​​Mr. Trump to empty Gaza with someone defining the idea as an ethnic cleansing. Instead, Arab leaders approved an alternative Egyptian post -war construction plan for Gaza last week, but Trump’s administration and Israel were both Quickly reject Again stating that the gauze bar is unprofitable.

The administration of former President Joe Biden regularly sent US officials to meet with the new Syrian government in Damascus, in the performance of Mr. Trump’s inauguration when visits stopped. New Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, previously known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, quickly condemned Mr. Trump’s remarks in February, saying that the plan of the US president is “a serious crime that will ultimately succeed”

“Trump administration should take part directly with the new government in Damascus, especially after the agreement between Damascus and the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces of the United States). And ensure that Iran never gets in Syria, for a truly, permanent defeat of ISIS, and spent a fully acted in manististically provoking compliance with a dependent. Humanitarian organization based in Washington, for CBS News.

Since December, Israel has spent broadly widespread air attacks in Syria, to what he described as a weapon of the Assad regime and seized the territory in the clipboard between both countries. Last week, Israel struck the Damascus suburb, saying that he took out the headquarters of Islamic jihad, a militant group supported in Iran, which has a significant stronghold in Gaza and occupied west coast.

The State Department spokesman has postponed to the Israeli government, and told the CBS News that a special envoy in the Middle East of Steve Witkoff continues to work tirelessly on the extension of the first phase (Israel-hama agreement on the termination of fire) or in advance to the phase with these principles. “

State Department also referred to Witkoff’s remarks from a Interview in February Fox News In which he said: “We need to explore new recipes for politics that have ultimately ended up in a better life for Gazana and Palestine.”

Witkoff also suggested in the same interview with Fox that the entire Palestinian population of Gaza could go to other Arab nations with headquarters in the Middle East and other countries outside the region: “I think the president’s solution is: how do we address where two million people can go? And I think they are obvious answers: in some respect, in some aspects.

When asked by the moderator “Face the Nation” Margaret Brennan on Sunday whether Trump’s administration spoke with other countries about the relocation of two million Palestinians in Gaza, Wikoff said again “I think we are exploring, Margaret, all the alternatives and opportunities that lead to a better life for Gazana. And by the way, for the people of Israel. So, we explore all these things.”

Millions of displaced Palestinians already live in the surrounding Arab countries as refugees, including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. The far right of Israel’s Ministers increasingly called for the movement of the Palestinians in Gaza, and also on the west coast from their country as part of an extreme look, they would fulfill the biblical claim of Jews to Earth and increase the safety of Israel.

The Israeli government, the White House and its National Security Council have refused to respond to more requests to comment on more CBS.

Trump’s son -in -law and former advisor Jared Kushner first suggested that Gaza’s “Property along the shore could be very valuable if people focused on building a living” during discussion of a camera at Harvard University February 2024.

Associated Press was the first Report Friday That the US and Israel contacted Sudan, Somali and also Somaliland, about the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza.