Abdel Fattah El-Sisi says that “the displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice” after the president of the United States repeats Egypt and Jordan to accept Gaza residents.
President Abdel Fattaah El-Sisi said that Egypt will not participate in the displacement of the Palestinians, days after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, suggested that the Arab countries welcome the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip devastated by the war.
“With respect to what is said about the displacement of the Palestinians, it can never be tolerated or allowed due to its impact on Egyptian national security,” El-Sisi said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“The deportation or displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice in which we cannot participate,” he said.
Almost all 2.2 million residents of Gaza have been displaced at least once since Israel launched its war against the territory in October 2023 in response to an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel.
After El Alto El Fuego de Israel-Mayo entered into force earlier this month, Trump promoted a plan to “clean” the Gaza Strip and relocate its residents to Jordan and Egypt. He returned to the idea this week, asking the Palestinians to move to “safer” places like Egypt or Jordan.
Moving the inhabitants of Gaza could be done “temporarily or could be in the long term,” he said.
But the idea of relocating to the Palestinians has been rejected by the Palestinians and regional countries, who say it would undermine the notion of Palestinian status and instability promoted in the Middle East.
Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi also rejected Trump's suggestion, saying that “Jordan is for Jordanians and Palestine is for the Palestinians.”
Fear of displacement
El-Sisi said his government would work with the Trump administration to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine “that is based on the solution of two states.”
“The solution … is the establishment of a Palestinian state,” said El-Sisi. “The solution is not to eliminate the Palestinian people from their place.”
The displacement has been a recurring theme in the Palestinian history and the inhabitants of the gaza strip fear that if they leave, they are never allowed to return.
Since the beginning of the 15 -month war of Israel in Gaza, Arab countries have repeatedly warned any plan to push the Palestinians to neighboring countries, saying that such an extent would be a reminiscence of Nakba in 1948, when hundreds of thousands Palestinians were displaced by force during force during force during force. The fight surrounding the creation of the Israeli State.
Egypt and Jordan have peace agreements with Israel and also support the creation of a Palestinian state in West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. They fear that the permanent displacement of the population of Gaza can make a future state more difficult to perform.
Egypt and Jordan are key allies of the United States in the Middle East and the recipients of US aid. The $ 1.3 billion of the United States annual military assistance to Egypt were exempt from a freezing of US funds to global aid programs this week.
