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We don't have details yet, but we can talk about principles,
Saar told a news conference with his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani We will not sell our land for you, real estate developer. We are hungry, homeless, and desperate but we are not collaborators,
said Abdel Ghani, a father of four living with his family in the ruins of their Gaza City home Palestinians ... No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed!"
Everything must be based on the free will of (the) individual and, on the other hand, of a will of a state that is ready to absorb,
Countries like Spain, Ireland, Norway, and others, which have levelled accusations and false claims against Israel over its actions in Gaza, are legally obligated to allow any Gaza resident to enter their territories,
A plan like this needs years of preparation … It could be a security nightmare, and Jordan would be seen as betraying the Palestinian cause,
The questions of who counts as Jordanian and what it means to be Jordanian are highly combustible,
said Alia Brahimi, a regional expert at the Atlantic Council Amongst a forcibly displaced population there are always going to be militants, whether Hamas or new groups looking to stand up for a new generation of brutalised and disenfranchised Palestinians. If they were to operate from Egyptian soil this would endanger and likely upend Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel, but it would also energise and embolden local militant groups that are opposed to the Egyptian regime.”
The Jordanians are very worried that what happens in Gaza [could open] the door to the annexation [by Israel] of the West Bank,
As with King Abdullah of Jordan, there’s the potential for political calamity too, in that neither Arab leader can afford to be complicit in the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Frankly, Trump has given voice to the worst nightmares of the leaderships in Amman and Cairo.”
It would be a repeat trauma of an already traumatised people. The Nakba [the displacement of 1948] is still very fresh in the collective memory of the Arab people.”
Katrina Sammour, an independent Amman-based analyst, said Egypt is a huge country but this would come with a huge … economic cost,
They are terrified that an Israeli policy of population transfer will actually become real,
said Neil Quilliam, an associate fellow of the Middle East programme at the Chatham House thinktank in London We will not leave our land even if they brought all the tanks in the world,
said Umm Muhammad al-Baytar, a resident of Ramallah We have been fighting displacement since 1948
You see, my house was destroyed, but I can sleep on the rubble
said Akram, pointing to the ruins behind him We returned despite the massive destruction and despite the lack of infrastructure, water and basic necessities,
said Ahmed al-Minawi, 24, back with his family in Gaza City We only have one choice: to live or die here
said Ahmed Halasa, a 41-year-old resident of Gaza City, standing by the ruins of a toppled building Not even air strikes could force them to leave,
the pensioner said of her compatriots in the Gaza Strip We spent a year-and-a-half under war, we will not accept the idea of leaving. Those who leave their own countries suffer unspeakably. We will not leave or flee our country,
