Trump proposes ‘clean out’ of Gaza population

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Donald Trump has called on Egypt and Jordan to adopt most of Gaza to adopt most of the population, saying that the time to “clean” the region is a comment that may probably express Palestinians and Arabs throughout the region.

“I want to take Egypt people. And I want Jordan people to go, “the US President told reporters in the Air Force One. “You’re talking about a million and half people, and we’re simply cleaning that whole thing.”

Trump’s proposal will maintain the US policy of promoting the two-state solution on the basis of the establishment of the Palestinian state along with Israel as well as the Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank.

Trump He says that he has already discussed the proposal to transfer Gaza with King Abdullah of Jordan on Saturday and will address Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.

As the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas entered the second week, Trump said that Gaza “literally a place of destruction, almost everything was destroyed and there were people dying so I want to be involved with some Arab nations and build a housing. A different position where they can be at peace for change. “

Trump said that the population transfer “may be temporarily or may be long -term”. The pre -Gaza war population was 2.2 million.

Amman and Cairo have repeatedly rejected the transfer of Palestinians to their territory since the war began in October 2023, and said it would be considered “Palestinian factors” at the expense of Israel’s neighbors.

CC has earlier said that Gazan occupied will threaten Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel because some of them will start a war against the Jewish state from within the borders of Egypt.

HA Helier, senior Fellow of the Center for American Progress in Washington, says such transfer “can be deeply unstable for Jordan, especially for Jordan. [which already has a large Palestinian population] And possible Egypt could transfer Palestinians to Sinai as it could have a conflict between Palestinian militants and Israel. “

Both countries have poor economies and they need US support, but their leaders will not want to see that they will consider the Arab public opinion second “Nakba” or disaster in neighboring countries of the neighboring countries. When the state of Israel was established in 1948.

“It will express anger of the Arabs because the historical record is very clear; Every time the Palestinians were forced to leave Palestine, they never returned, “said Helier. “Its inhabitants will not get any support from the Arabs to empty Gaza, because it is the definition of ethnic elimination.”

Such steps, he added, will undermine the possibility of normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia – the center of US diplomatic efforts in the region for a long time. “It will make it more unlikely that the deal will happen in the near future,” said Helier.

However, Trump’s Gaza proposal made Israel’s radical right -wing leaders.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich describes Trump’s advice as a “wonderful idea”, adding that “only the new solution will bring thoughts out of the box .. Peace and security.”

Itmaar’s Ben-Gavir, former Israeli National Security Minister who resigned last week in protest of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, praised Trump for floating the idea.

Trump also confirmed that a 2,000 -pound weighing bomb imposed by the Pentagon Biden administration lifted the suspension on the supply of Israel. “We have given them today and will be with them,” he said. “They paid for them and they have been waiting for them for a long time.”

The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was already under pressure despite the successful release of four women Israeli soldiers from the Gaza captivity and 200 Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli prison on Saturday.

Israeli officials said over the weekend that Hamas had violated the US -Dalley deal when it was still believed to be alive to the last civilian woman hostage – the Arbel failed to release in front of Jews.

The mediators were working behind the screen to find a solution for the release of Yehud, but the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it would not allow thousands of displaced Palestinians to return to North Gaza until the matter was “well”. In agreement

Israel’s ceasefire with Lebanon has also been in danger, Israel has made it clear by last week that they will not fulfill their two months’ deadline for the withdrawal of its forces from southern Lebanon on Sunday.

Extra report of Sarah Daduch