tRump is now urging the leaders of Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinian refugees so that “we just clean out that whole thing.” He added that resettling Gaza’s population “could be temporary or long term.”
“It’s literally a demolition site right now,” tRump said.
That suggestion is likely to be met with a hard “no” from the two U.S. allies and the Palestinians themselves who fear Israel would never allow them to return.
More than two million Palestinian refugees, most of whom have been granted citizenship, live in Jordan, according to the UN. They are descendants of some of the approximately 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in the conflicts surrounding the formation of Israel in 1948.
Jordan’s foreign minister said the kingdom was “firm and unwavering” in its rejection of displacing Palestinians.
Thousands of Palestinians have fled to Egypt since the war with Israel began, but they are not recognised there as refugees.
