When asked about Mr Trump’s comments, Abu Yahya Rashid, a man who was displaced in the southern city of Khan Yunus, said:
“We are the same people who decide our fate and what we want. This land is owned by us and our ancestors throughout history. We will not leave it except the bodies.”
For decades, US foreign policy has bound the establishment of a Palestinian state, Gaza is an important part. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected it.
The United States has already said that it opposes any forced migration of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank, the then Secretary of Foreign Antony Blankin said: “They can’t, to leave Gaza, to leave them. Do not put pressure. “
According to the UN, more than two million Palestinian refugees, most of whom have been granted citizenship, live in Jordan. They are the descendants of some of the 750,000 Palestinians who escaped or were forced home in the nearby Israeli conflict.
Thousands of Palestinians have fled to Egypt since the war with Israel, but they have not been recognized as refugees there.
In October 2023, Egypt’s President Abdul Fateh Al -Sisi said he rejected the Palestinians’ displacement in the Sinai Peninsula, and was an independent state for the Palestinians.
