Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says ‘displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice’ after US president repeated call.
President Sisi of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan firmly rejected the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza following US President Trump’s suggestion. Sisi emphasized Egypt’s unwavering support for a Palestinian state,
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call with Jordan's King Abdullah on Monday, the State Department said, with the call coming two days after a suggestion by President Donald Trump that Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from Gaza.
US President Donald Trump had floated a plan to move Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan. Read more at straitstimes.com.
President Trump said he had spoken to Jordan’s leader and planned to call Egypt’s on Sunday. Most of Gaza’s two million residents have been displaced in 15 months of fighting.
President Donald Trump said he wants Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations to accept more Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip, saying he would like to "just clean out" the area.
President-elect Donald Trump proposed a controversial plan aboard Air Force One: to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, suggesting it could bring stability to the region.
You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over,’” he says
President Trump has urged Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees as Gaza suffers from the continued Israel-Hamas conflict. He spoke with Jordan's King Abdullah II and plans discussions with Egypt's President el-Sisi.
Jordan's air force launched on Tuesday the biggest air bridge so far to bring urgent medical supplies to Gaza under a U.S.-sponsored deal to step up deliveries following a ceasefire, officials said.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip, potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.
Speaking about the effects of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, Mr Trump said he complimented Jordan for having successfully accepted Palestinian refugees and that he told the king: “I’d love for you to take on more, cause I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”