Recent comments by former US President Donald Trump suggesting the relocation of Gaza's Palestinian population to Egypt and Jordan have sparked widespread condemnation. The idea, previously floated by Israeli officials, proposes forcibly displacing Palestinians from Gaza, raising serious concerns about human rights violations and the potential for regional instability.
Over the decades since the Six Day war in 1967, when Israeli forces first captured the Gaza Strip, which had been under Egyptian military rule, Israeli officials and commentators have periodically pushed the notion that Palestinians in Gaza could be resettled in Egypt.– which prepares studies and policy papers rather than representing the intelligence agencies – a few weeks into the war in Gaza.
Jordan is already home to several million Palestinians, while tens of thousands live in Egypt. Both countries and other Arab nations reject the idea of Palestinians in Gaza being moved to their countries. If Trump’s remarks are baffling – as well as being contrary to international humanitarian law against forcible displacement – it is because they seem to indicate he has no coherent policy for the Middle East.Trump’s ambition for a grand deal at whose heart is the normalisation of Saudi-Israeli relations is already facing the headwind of the fact that Riyadh is insisting on significant movement towards Palestinian statehood.
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