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It is important for regional countries to emphasize that the refugee issue is one of the drivers of the current conflict and making more Palestinians into refugees won’t solve that. This goes right to the heart of the conflict,
By seeking to depopulate Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants, Trump… is doing the bidding of Israel’s extreme right-wing fanatics,
Given that the Palestinians of Gaza are highly unlikely to leave voluntarily, a forced displacement towards Egypt or Jordan would pose a variety of existential threats to these two countries,
Jordan is for Jordanians and Palestine is for Palestinians,
said Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in a news conference in Amman Sunday If they were to… accept being participants in and hosting Palestinians in an ethnic cleansing, that would undoubtedly be infuriating and genuinely destabilizing for both countries,
Timothy Kaldas, deputy director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy in Washington, DC, told CNN I don’t know what he’s talking about,
Graham said, referring to Trump Ironically, Trump’s proposal, if it were to materialize, would in fact be self-defeating,
Egypt and Jordan want to take Palestinian refugees even less than Trump wants to take it Guatemalan refugees. If Trump understood anything about the history of the Egyptian ruling clique v Muslim Brotherhood or the Jordanian Hashemite rulers v Palestinians, he would know this."
In a post on X, Julie Roginsky, a former Fox News and CNBC contributor, wrote The idea that all the Palestinians are going to leave and go somewhere else, I don't see that to be overly practical."
Lindsay Graham, a Trump ally, said After 76 years during which the majority of Gaza's population has been forcibly kept in harsh conditions to preserve the aspiration of destroying the State of Israel, the idea of helping them find other places to start new, better lives is an excellent idea."
The Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the leader of the Religious Zionism party, said in a statement published by the Times of Israel My brother is a prisoner, my brother’s children were martyred, my husband was martyred, many relatives were killed, there is no one in Gaza who did not lose someone from their family, our homes are gone, if we return to our home, there is nothing to return to,
Ethnic cleansing is anything but an ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking, no matter how one packages it. It is illegal, immoral, and irresponsible.”
In a post on X, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said If this were to happen, it would amount to an alarming escalation in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and exponentially increase their suffering,
We have had enough suffering and humiliation. Our lives will remain in a state of war until the Day of Judgment, just let us live a few years in security and peace,
If this proposal happens, to temporarily evacuate the Gaza Strip, the people of Gaza will not be returned to the Strip again,
We love this land as trees love water. We have no intention of leaving,
It’s impossible for people to accept this,
Palestinian citizen Nafiz Halawa told Al Jazeera from Nuseirat in central Gaza If we wanted to leave, we would have done that a long time ago. The genocidal war they are waging will achieve nothing against the Palestinians and we will remain despite what happens,
We emphasise that the Palestinian people will never abandon their land or their holy sites, and we will not allow the repetition of the catastrophes (Nakba) of 1948 and 1967. Our people will remain steadfast and will not leave their homeland,
There is no place for them here; there are no tents. Most people are staying here because they dismantled their tents, as they thought after the four Israeli captives were released, they would be able to cross into the northern part of the Strip, as agreed,
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