Arab ministers reject Trump’s invitation to move Palestine from Gaza | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
The US president suggested that Egypt and Jordan should take over Palestinians from Gaza.
Foreign ministers from five Arab countries issued a joint statement, rejecting the forcible displacement of Palestinians from their country.
The statement, published on Saturday, handed over a unique position against US President Donald Trump call For Egypt and Jordan to take over Palestine from Gaza.
Foreign Minister and officials from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Palestinian authorities and Arab leagues said that Trump’s proposed move would endanger stability in the region, spread conflict and undermine the prospects for peace.
“We confirm our rejection [any attempts] In order to endanger the inalienable rights of Palestinians, either through the activities of settlement, or evictions or contributions of land or for emptying the land from its owners … in any form or under any conditions or justifications, “the joint statement said.
The meeting followed after Trump said Last week, this Egypt and Jordan should take over Palestinians from Gaza, which he called “Demolition Place” after 15 months Israeli bombing This made most of their 2.3 million people homeless.
Egypt and Jordan – key American allies in the region – repeatedly rejected Trump’s proposal to “clean” Gaza. Jordan is a home of several million Palestinians, while tens of thousands live in Egypt.
On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi also rejected Trump’s idea and said that the Egyptians would go out to the streets to express their disapproval.
“Moving the Palestinian people from their country is injustice in which we cannot participate,” he added.
However, on Thursday, Trump repeated the idea of saying, “We do a lot for them, and they will do it,” in an apparent reference to abundant American assistance, including military assistance, on Egypt and Jordan.
Analysts said Trump’s proposal would represent ethnic cleansing.
Yousef Munayyer, Chief of Palestine/Israel at the Washington DC Arab Center, said Al Jazeera earlier this week that Trump’s “unheard of” statement should be condemned for violating all norms and basic rights.
“Trump says all kinds of things,” Munayyer said, explaining that the US president’s statement should be taken with a hint of skepticism.
“Sometimes the things he means. Sometimes the things he doesn’t mean. Sometimes the things he heard in the conversation he led five minutes ago. Sometimes things he thinks he has heard but misunderstood.”
Foreign ministers on Saturday pointed out that “they are looking forward to cooperating with the administration of US President Donald Trump to achieve a righteous and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, in accordance with the decision of the two countries.”
They also welcomed Egypt’s plans to hold an international conference in the near future with the United Nations that would focus on the renewal of gauze and confirm the UN main agency for Palestinians, UNRWA “main, necessary and irreversible role” mostly flattened during fifteen months of war between Israel and Hamas.
