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Trump Suggests Relocating Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan as Ongoing Conflict Rages On

Trump Suggests Relocating Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan as Ongoing Conflict Rages On

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US President Donald Trump has made several comments suggesting that he wants to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to neighboring countries, specifically Egypt and Jordan. According to Trump, he has spoken to Jordan's King Abdullah about the idea, which he described as "cleaning out" Gaza. However, Hamas and other Palestinian groups have rejected the idea, and it is likely to be met with opposition from the international community.

Bezalel Smotrich
Religious Zionist Party
1. Only out-of-the-box thinking with new solutions will bring a solution of peace and security.
2. Jordan is not, and will never be, an alternative homeland for Palestinians. The Palestinian people cannot abandon their homeland, no matter the pressures or threats they face. For Palestinians, their land is not merely territory but identity, history, and shared destiny.
Ayman Hussein Abdullah Al-Safadi
Jordan Foreign Ministry
1. Our rejection for the deportation is steadfast and unchanging.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
1. This proposal falls within the framework of encouraging war crimes and crimes against humanity by forcing our people to leave their land.
Basem Naim
Hamas
1. Therefore, they will not accept any proposals or solutions, even if seemingly well-intentioned under the guise of reconstruction, as proposed by U.S. President Trump.
Mustafa Barghouti
Palestinian National Initiative
1. The Palestinian people are committed to remaining in their homeland.
Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. You're talking about probably a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know, over the centuries it's had many, many conflicts that site. And I don't know, something has to happen.
2. I said to him: I'd love you to take on more because I'm looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it's a mess, it's a real mess. I'd like him to take people.
3. But it's literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything's demolished, and people are dying there.
4. The hostages are starting to come back. Oh, if I. If I weren't here, they wouldn't be back ever. They would have never come back. They would have all died. If this were done a year earlier, if Biden would have done this deal a year and a half, two years ago, or frankly, it should have never happened.
5. I'd like Egypt to take people. And I'd like Jordan to take people.
6. I'm going to be speaking with Bibi Netanyahu in the not too distant future.
7. But if European governments were to think through this a bit more, I think there would be a strong concern that this would be destabilising not just to critical European partners, but would also undermine European interests. Europe has an interest in a stable neighbourhood. It has an interest also in preventing irregular migration through the flow of refugees.
8. There have been various civilisations on that strip. It didn't start here. It started thousands of years before, and there's always been violence associated with it. You could get people living in areas that are a lot safer and maybe a lot better and maybe a lot more comfortable.
Hasan Al-Hasan
Center for Middle East Strategic Studies
1. By seeking to depopulate Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants, Trump… is doing the bidding of Israel's extreme right-wing fanatics.
2. Ironically, Trump's proposal, if it were to materialize, would in fact be self-defeating.
Edmund Ratka
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
1. This is another reason why Jordan's traditional tribal communities are against the influx of more Palestinians.
2. This could reinforce the arguments of right-wing forces in Israel, who already see today's Jordan as a state for Palestinians.

Trump Suggests Relocating Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan as Ongoing Conflict Rages On

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