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Strong Arab countries rejected President Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinians From Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
Egypt, Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League issued a joint statement rejecting any plans to get the Palestinians out of their lands in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Mr. Trump told the reporters last month that he would urge Jordan and Egypt leaders to take Gaza now largely, and that moving to about 1.5 million people away from Gaza may mean “we are cleaning this matter as a whole.”
Mr. Trump quoted what King Abdullah told in Jordan when the two made a call last Saturday: “I told him,” I love to take more than that because I look at the entire Gaza Strip now, and it is chaos. “
Trump said in reference to Widespread Because of the 15 -month Israel war with Hamas, Now stop the fragile ceasefire.
Mr. Trump said that he was guiding a similar Egyptian President Abdel Fahia Al -Sisi during a conversation last week. He said, “Egypt loves to take people and I would like Jordan to take people.”
Earlier this week, Egypt, Hamas and Jordan, as well as many European countries Refuse the suggestion of Mr. Trump.
On Saturday, the Arab statement followed a meeting in Cairo from senior diplomats from Egypt, Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as Hussein Al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official working as a major episode with the Israeli, and the Arab League, President of Ahmed Apol-Hight.
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The Arab statement warned that such plans “threaten the stability of the region, the risks of expanding the conflict, and undermining the prospects for peace and coexistence between their peoples.”
Arab diplomats said they are looking to work with the Trump administration “to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, based on a two -state solution,” according to the statement.
They called on the international community to help “plan and implement” a comprehensive reconstruction plan for Gaza to ensure that the Palestinians remain on their soil.
Egypt and Jordan, along with the Palestinians, worry that Israel will not allow them to return to Gaza as soon as they leave. Egypt and Jordan are also afraid of the effect of any such a flow for refugees on their troubled economies in addition to the stability of their governments.
Jordan is already home to more than 2 million Palestinians. Egypt has warned against the security implications of transferring large numbers of Palestinians to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, on the border with Gaza.
Both countries were the first to make peace with Israel, but they support the establishment of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, the lands that Israel seized in the Middle East war in 1967.
