Trump wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians

US President Donald Trump said he wanted Egypt and Jordan to receive Palestinians from Gaza, which he described as a “demolition site.”

Trump said that he informed the Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah: “I would like to take over, because I look at the entire Gaza Strip now and I see that it is in a state of chaos.”

He said: “You are probably talking about one and a half million people, and we just remove this entirety,” adding that this step “may be temporary” or “may be long -term.” The US President said he intends to submit a similar request to the Egyptian president on Sunday.

Hamas has pledged to oppose any such action, and these comments are likely to raise the anger of the Palestinians in Gaza, whose Gaza considers their homeland.

“Our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip have suffered from death and destruction for 15 months … without leaving their land. Therefore, he will not accept any offers or solutions, even if good intentions appear under the title of reconstruction, as the United States announced.” “The proposals of President Trump,” Bassem Naim, a member of the Hamas Political Bureau, told the BBC.

He added that “our people also thwarted all plans for displacement and the alternative homeland for decades, will thwart such projects as well.”

Most of the two million residents of Gaza were displaced during the 15 -month -old Israeli war, which destroyed most of the infrastructure in Gaza on the ground.

The United Nations estimated earlier that 60% of buildings throughout Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and it may take decades to rebuild them.

Trump made his remarks while talking to reporters on the presidential plane.

“Almost everything has been demolished and people die there.

He added, “So I prefer to participate with some Arab countries and build housing in a different location, where they may live in peace for change,” he added.

Trump did not provide further details about the proposal, and the topic was not indicated in the official reading of the White House during the call.

In response to a question about Trump’s statements, Abu Yahya Rashid, a displaced man in the southern city of Khan Yunis, said:

“We are the ones who decide our destiny and what we want. This land is for us and the property of our ancestors throughout history. We will leave them only bodies.”

For decades, US foreign policy has committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state, Gaza is a major part of it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu This refuses.

The United States had said earlier that it was opposed to any forced displacement of the Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank Then, Foreign Minister Anthony Blinkkin said last year“It is not permissible, and it is not permissible, to pressure them to leave Gaza.”

More than two million Palestinian refugees live in Jordan, most of whom have citizenship, according to the United Nations. They are the descendants of some of about 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced to leave their homes in the conflicts that surrounded the formation of Israel in 1948.

Thousands of Palestinians have fled to Egypt since the war with Israel began, but they are not recognized as refugees.

October 2023, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi He said he refused any forced displacement of the Palestinians In the Sinai Peninsula, and that the only solution is to establish an independent state for the Palestinians.

Some want the extreme right in Israel to return to Gaza And setting up settlements there. Israel ordered the unilateral withdrawal in 2005, when 21 settlements were dismantled and the army was evacuated for about nine thousand settlers.

Former right -wing National Security Minister Etamar bin Ghaffir said that he praised Trump “for his initiative to transfer residents from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt.”

“One of our demands from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the encouragement of voluntary immigration,” he wrote on the X.

Trump’s comments came as The displaced people were late to return to their homes In northern Gaza, after Israel accused Hamas of violating the conditions of the ceasefire agreement.

“There is nothing there, there is no life, everything is destructive. But returning to your land, to your home is a great joy,” a man who is eagerly waiting for the BBC told the BBC.

In separate comments on the presidential plane, Trump said he had finished the former president Joe Biden dominated the supply of 2000 pounds of weighing bombs to Israel.

“They paid for it and they were waiting for it for a long time,” he told reporters on the presidential plane.

The United States is largely the largest arms supplier to Israel, after it helped it build one of the most technologically developed armies in the world.

But the war in Gaza led to renewed calls to the United States to reduce or stop arms shipments to Israel, due to the level of destruction caused by American weapons in the Strip.