President Donald Trump once again insisted that the United States would control the Gaza Strip, when he met King Abdullah of Jordan in the White House on Tuesday.
This was his first meeting when Trump announced his plan to handle the enclave and transfer his population of two million Palestinians to other countries, including Jordan.
Earlier this week, Trump had suggested that he could withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt unless he was willing to take in Gazan.
Jordan, an important US ally in the Middle East, is already home to millions of Palestinians and has rejected the proposal. Shah Abdullah said that a solution would have to be found which is “best for everyone”.
But while talking to reporters at the Oval Office, Shah Abdullah, sitting on his right, indicated that he would not change his opinion, which mobilized global condemnation while unveiling it last week.
“We are going to take it,” he said. We are going to catch it. We are going to care about it. “
Trump claimed that if the destructive territory was about to be occupied by the US, “a lot of jobs” would be created all over the region.
“I think it might be a diamond,” he said, adding that he now believes that the United States is “up”, and other countries will have to threaten to participate in it.
King Abdullah sat quietly with Trump when the president repeated a plan that would maintain decades of US policy and could be a violation of international law, which banned the forced transfer of the population. Is
Jordan has so far rejected the idea as a fundamental violation of international law, but has quietly expressed concern over the kingdom’s ability to absorb Palestinians in large numbers.
In his short remarks on Tuesday, Shah Abdullah said the matter would be discussed and that the two sides should wait unless the Egyptians could present the views.
On the possibility of taking additional Palestinians, King Abdullah said that a solution that is “best for everyone”. Jordan will take 2,000 sick Palestinian children, he said.
In this country, millions of people already belong to Palestinian refugees who were forced from the land to be formed in 1948, as well as their roots firmly east of the Jordan River.
The country has also absorbed the waves of refugees from Syria, and it relies heavily on US economic and military aid.
The United Nations has warned that citizens are strictly prohibited under international law for forcibly displaced from the occupied territory and “racial cleanliness”.
Trump was shown a question about the UN warning on Tuesday.
“We are moving them to a beautiful place where they can have new houses, where they can live safely, where they can have doctors and medical and all of them,” he said.
Since expressing the proposal during a news conference along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, Trump repeatedly doubled his plan for Gaza, saying he was to buy and own it. Are determined.
In an interview with Fox News earlier this week, Trump said that two million Gaza residents would be resettled and they would have no right to return.
He said, “They will not do so, because they have a lot of accommodation.” “I’m talking about making a permanent place for them.”
