Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II rejected on Wednesday any forced displacement of Gazans after US President Donald Trump floated an idea to move Palestinians from the territory to the two Arab countries.
In his first public response to Trump’s comments, Sisi said that displacing “the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice that we cannot take part in”.
Speaking at a press conference in Cairo with Kenyan President William Ruto, he added that Egypt’s historic position in favour of the creation of a Palestinian state “can never be compromised”.
Meanwhile, in Brussels, Jordan’s King Abdullah II stressed his country’s “firm position on the need to keep the Palestinians on their land and to guarantee their legitimate rights, in accordance with the Israeli and Palestinian two-state solution”.
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After an Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect on January 19, Trump had floated a plan to “clean out” the Gaza Strip, reiterating the idea on Monday as he called for Palestinians to move to “safer” locations such as Egypt or Jordan.