Reuters on January 27 reported that US President Trump recently said he had talked to King Jordan Abdullah II, exchanging the idea of building settlements and moving more than one million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to neighboring countries.
According to him, these settlements will have “temporary or long -term houses” for the Gaza people to live. The US leader also said he wanted both Jordan and Egypt, two countries adjacent to Gaza, receiving more Palestinians.
“We need to clean up the entire area of 1.5 million people. I’m not sure, but something happens. Gaza is currently a ruin beach. And people are dying there. So I want to join some Arab countries to build houses at another location, where I think they can live in peace for the first time, ” Mr. Trump said.
The idea of relocation of Palestinians was opposed by Egypt and Jordan. According to Jordan’s Petra news agency, the phone talks did not mention Palestinian resettlement. Jordan has now received more than 2.39 million Palestinian refugees, according to the United Nations data.
Secretary of State Jordan Ayman Safadi said the country supported the legal rights to the land and the homeland of the Palestinians, rejecting any violation of these inviolable rights, even through the merger of land. belt, or by temporary or long -term relocation.
Earlier, Egypt repeatedly rejected all Israeli proposals on the evacuation of all or part of the people in Gaza to the Sinai peninsula (Egypt), considering any Israel’s effort to do this as this is The crime and eliminating the homeland of the Palestinians.
According to The Times of IsraelThe Arab Federation expressed his agreement with Egypt’s statement, and emphasized that “forcing to relocate and deport people from their land can only be called ethnic purge”.
For his part, the Hamas group also refused. Basem Naim, a member of the Hamas Political Committee, told Reuters that Palestinians would not accept any offer or solution as proposals of US President Trump.
Sami Abu Zuhri, another Hamas official, called on the US leader not to repeat the “non -prospect” ideas that his predecessor jOE Biden tested. “The Gaza people endured the loss and refused to leave their homeland and they would not leave it regardless of the reason,” Abu Zuhri said.
In another development, Mr. Avichay Adraee – a spokesman for the Israeli army on January 27 posted on Twitter that people were allowed to walk north through netzarim and Rashid streets to return to the north of the Gaza Strip. From 7 am 27.1 (local time).
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on January 26, he said he had his first phone talk with the new US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Netanyahu said Minister Hegseth expressed his long -term support for Israel, and pledged to ensure absolute security and side with Israel.