US President Trump's controversial proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Arab countries has been met with widespread condemnation. Palestinians, Jordan, and Egypt have all rejected the plan, with experts expressing concerns about its feasibility and potential for ethnic cleansing.
US President Donald Trump 's proposal to 'just clean out' Gaza by uprooting Palestinians to neighboring Arab countries has been met with strong rejection from Palestinians, Jordan , and Egypt . Some experts have dismissed the idea as 'not serious,' while others argue that it could amount to ethnic cleansing.
Trump floated the plan to reporters at the weekend, describing Gaza as a demolition site and suggesting that the displacement of Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan could be done 'temporarily or could be long term.' 'So I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change,' he said. '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.'' Trump claimed to have spoken to Jordan's King Abdullah about the issue and expected to talk to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Both have publicly rebuffed Trump's suggestion. 'Our stance that the two-state solution is the path to achieving peace is firm and unwavering. Our rejection of displacement is also firm and unwavering,' Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi stated. Egypt's foreign ministry categorically rejected any displacement of Palestinians from their land, regardless of its duration. Israel has occupied Palestinian territories - the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) - since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Following the war, Israel started building settlements in the occupied territories. In 2005, Israel ended its permanent military presence in Gaza, withdrawing its troops and dismantling its settlements there. However, the enclave has remained under a land, air, and sea blockade by Israel since 2007, and Israel is still considered the occupying power under international law. The UN considers both Gaza and the West Bank to still be under Israeli occupation, a claim Israel rejects. Jordan, Egypt, and other Arab nations have long rejected the idea of Palestinians in Gaza being moved to their countries. Like Palestinians, Arab countries fear that any mass movement across the border would further undermine prospects for a 'two-state solution' - the idea of creating a state of Palestine next to Israel - and leave Arab nations dealing with the consequences. Jordan is already home to several million Palestinians, while tens of thousands live in Egypt. Many Palestinians in Gaza have stated they would not leave, even if they had the option, because they fear it might lead to another permanent displacement, echoing the 1948 Nakba, or 'catastrophe,' when 700,000 Palestinians were dispossessed from their homes during the war surrounding the creation of Israel. On Sunday, some Palestinians rejected Trump's suggestion outright. 'If he thinks he will forcibly displace the Palestinian people, this is impossible. The Palestinian people firmly believe that this land is theirs, this soil is their soil,' displaced Palestinian Magdy Seidam told Reuters. Another displaced resident, Allamuldin Deeb, stated: 'These futile attempts will not weaken the resolve of the Palestinian people nor drive us away from our Palestinian land.' Hassan Jabareen, the director of Palestinian rights group Adalah, told The Guardian: 'To 'clean' Gaza immediately after the war would in fact be a continuation of the war, through the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.' Gaza is land that Palestinians would want as part of a future Palestinian state. Last year, Israel's then-foreign minister Israel Katz, now serving as defense minister, stated that Israel had no plans to deport Palestinians from Gaza. He said Israel would coordinate with Egypt on Palestinian refugees and find a way not to harm Egypt's interests. However, comments by some in the Israeli government have fueled Palestinian and Arab fears of a new Nakba. Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said Trump's plan would give Palestinians 'the opportunity to build new and better lives elsewhere.' 'With God's help, I will work with the prime minister and cabinet to develop an operational plan to implement this as soon as possible,' he added. Rami Khouri, a fellow at the American University of Beirut, stated that Trump's comments were 'not a serious policy change.' 'The troubling thing is what it reflects in terms of how easily and quickly the most powerful man in the world can throw out an idea like this ... which look at the Palestinians as pieces on a monopoly game board: disposable people, movable people, mobile people, people who have no anchorage, no rights, no agency,' he told ABC News. Khouri said Egypt and Jordan were in a 'difficult situation' because they rely heavily on the United States for military and economic aid
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