Donald Trump Advocated resettlement of Palestinians abroad Gaza On Saturday, breaking with decades of US policy to advocate for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Trump said on Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan, and developed a plan for Jordan and Egypt to take in refugees from the Gaza Strip.
Trump Trump told reporters “Something has to happen on Air Force One, but right now it’s literally a demolition site. Almost everything has been demolished and people are dying there, so I’d rather join some Arab countries. “
Trump said the displaced Palestinians could “live in a different place where I think they can probably live comfortably for a change.”
The Hamas leadership rejects the idea that Palestinians living in Gaza should be resettled.
“The Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip have endured more than 15 months of death and destruction in one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the 21st century, just to stay on their land and homeland,” Hamas’ Bessim Naim said. The New York Times. “Therefore, they will not accept any proposals or solutions, even if seemingly well-intentioned under the guise of reconstruction, proposed by US President Trump.”
More than 200,000 Palestinian refugees Already lives in Jordan. Jordan’s official news agency admitted that King Abdullah II Spoke with Trump earlier this week But did not mention Trump’s plans.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezel Smutrich, a member of the far-right Religious Zionist Party, Praise Trump’s idea of resettlement.
“After 76 years in which most of the population of Gaza were forced into difficult conditions to sustain Israel’s ambitions to destroy the state, their desire to find other places to start a new good life The idea of helping is a great idea,” Smutrich said.
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