Arab Nations Reject Trump's Suggestion to Relocate Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan

What might help Jordan is the old-school, and bipartisan, consensus wing in Washington that sees the Hashemites as indispensable to US foreign policy in the region, remembers the help that Jordan has given for decades to various US wars and interventions, and regards this ‘oasis of moderation’ as not worth destabilising in the long run,

Yom said

Trump will need to walk back this completely unrealistic proposition,

Toukan said

King Abdullah II has repeatedly said the ‘alternative homeland’ scenario and further Palestinian displacement is a red line … but Jordan is also directly dependent upon US aid and security assistance – the kingdom is vulnerable to geopolitical blackmail,

Yom, who has written extensively on the Middle East and North Africa, told Al Jazeera

This … does set up a major confrontation,

said Sean Yom, an associate professor of political science at Temple University

It will also directly hit the security apparatus, and all the harder since so much aid is routed through the military and police now,

Hughes added

I say clearly: the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice that we will not participate in,

el-Sisi said

Cleaning out Gaza... is part of colonial erasure of (the) Gaza Strip and the whole Palestine,

Baqaei said

They also rejected any efforts to encourage the transfer or uprooting of Palestinians from their land, under any circumstances or justifications,

the statement, released in English by the Qatari government, said

The call fostered a positive discussion between the two Presidents, underscoring the critical importance of advancing the implementation of the first and second phases of the ceasefire agreement, and ensuring the stabilization of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,

according to the Egyptian government read-out

I’d like Egypt to take people,

Trump said

I think Jordan will take people, yeah, people from Gaza, and I think Egypt will take them also. I mean, I heard somebody said they're not going to, but I think they will. I feel confident they will,

Trump said

The participants also expressed their commitment to working with the administration of US President Donald Trump to pursue a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, in line with the two-state solution, and to strive for a conflict-free region,

they said

The two leaders also discussed Egypt's important role in the release of hostages from Gaza,

said the US read-out of the call that did not mention any proposal to relocate Palestinians

Abdel Fattah el-Sisipresident

If I were to ask this of the Egyptian people, all of them would take to the streets to say 'no',

Sisi said on Wednesday of the proposed plan

The solution to this issue is the two-state solution. It is the establishment of a Palestinian state. The solution is not to remove the Palestinian people from their place. No."

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said last week during a press conference

Kenneth Rothunited States Attorney

Trump seems to endorse the far-right Israeli plan to 'solve' the problem of Hamas by expelling all Palestinians from Gaza -- the massive war crime of forced deportation. If done with U.S. weapons, Trump could be charged with aiding and abetting them."

Kenneth Roth, former Human Rights Watch executive director, wrote in an X, formerly Twitter, post last Sunday

I said to him that I’d love you to take on more, because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,

he told reporters aboard Air Force One

It's literally a demolition site right now,

Trump said, referring to the vast destruction caused by Israel's 15-month war with Hamas, now paused by a fragile ceasefire

We do a lot for them, and they are going to do it,

However, on Thursday, Trump reiterated the idea, saying ... in apparent reference to abundant US aid, including military assistance, to Egypt and Jordan

We affirm our rejection of [any attempts] to compromise Palestinians’ unalienable rights, whether through settlement activities, or evictions or annex of land or through vacating the land from its owners … in any form or under any circumstances or justifications,

the joint statement read