Since returning to power on January 20, Donald Trump has reiterated this request on several occasions, insisting that Jordan and Egypt should accept more Palestinian refugees from Gazaan idea categorically rejected by these two countriesas well as by United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian authority and Arab League.
President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that the Palestinians displaced in Gaza will be reinstalled “permanently” outside the territory devastated by war.
The statements were made at the beginning of the meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin NetanyahuIn the White House, where the two leaders are expected to discuss the ceasefire and the hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas.
“I don’t think people should return,” said Trump, quoted by the Associated Press agency (AP). “You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another place. I think it should be a place that makes people happy,” he added.
These comments were made while the US President and his main counselors argued that a three to five -year schedule for the reconstruction of the war devastated by the waras established in the temporary truce agreement, it is not feasible.
“If we look at the past decades, there are only deaths in Gaza,” Trump added. “This has been happening for years. It is all death. If we get a beautiful area to reinstall people permanently in beautiful homes where they can be happy and not shot and are not killed and not stabbed to death as it is happening in Gaza “.
Asked about how many Palestinians should be wondered, Trump replied: “All of them. Probably 1.7 million, perhaps 1.8 million. But I think everyone would be reinstalled in a place where they can have a beautiful life”said quoted by EFE.
US President Trump also described Gaza Strip as a “demolition site” And he said, after looking “from all angles” to the photographs of the Enclave, after the war with Israel, came to the conclusion that “This place is hell, it is very dangerous and no one can live there.”
“I don’t think people should return to Gaza. They live as if they were in hell. Gaza is not a place where one can live and the only reason they want to come back, and I believe in that, it is because they have no other alternative. The alternative? If they had an alternative, they would rather not return to Gaza and live in a beautiful and safe place, “he said.
Jordan and Egypt should welcome Palestinian refugees, says Trump
Since returning to power on January 20, Trump has reiterated this request on several occasions, insisting that the Jordan and Egypt should accept more Palestinian refugees from Gazaan idea categorically rejected by these two countriesas well as by United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian authority and Arab League.
It is the first time, however, that USA suggest that reinstallation should be a solution permanent and not temporary. Despite the refusal of Jordan and Egypt, Trump said he was confident that both nations will eventually accept The Palestinians.
“I think Jordan and Egypt will accept. I know they say they won’t accept them. I say they will accept, but I think other countries will also accept them. Gaza is a place of demolition right now,” he said, quoted by EFE.
Trump also signaled that it can be considering a independent Palestinian state as part of a broader solution for the Israelo-Palestinian conflict of decades. “Well, many plans change over time”I told journalists when asked if I was still committed to a plan like what it traded in 2020 and which asked for a Palestinian state.
“Many deaths have happened since I left and now I came back,” Trump said. “Now we are facing a situation that is different – in some better aspects and in other worse. But we are facing a very complex and difficult situation that we will solve.”
Already the Israeli Prime Minister recognized the involvement of the president of the United States in the ceasefire in Gaza, reached on January 19, and expects his Help contribute to advance the second phase of negotiations.
“When Israel and the United States work together, and President Trump and I work together, the hypotheses increase a lot. When we don’t work together, it creates problems,” said Benjamin Netanyahu at the beginning of the meeting, quoted by the Spanish agency EFE.
