‘Palestinians cannot be transferred’ from Gaza, Jordanian FM says

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi tells Al Jazeera that Jordan remains opposed to Trump’s Gaza takeover plan.

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has told Al Jazeera that the kingdom volition not budge successful its absorption to US President Donald Trump’s connection of relocating Palestinians successful Gaza to different countries, specified arsenic Jordan and Egypt.

His comments travel aft Jordan’s King Abdullah II met Trump successful the White House connected Tuesday, wherever the second reiterated astatine a quality briefing that the US would beryllium taking implicit the besieged Gaza Strip emptied of its residents, a connection critics accidental is efficaciously taste cleansing, the forcible expulsion of radical from their homeland.

“There are fixed and steadfast Jordanian positions that volition not alteration … the Palestinians cannot beryllium transferred to Egypt, Jordan, oregon immoderate Arab state,” Safadi said successful an interrogation with Al Jazeera.

“We volition enactment for a conscionable peace, which cannot instrumentality spot without the implementation of the two-state solution that guarantees the rights of the Palestinian people, particularly their close for state and for an autarkic sovereign authorities connected their Palestinian homeland.”

Both Jordan and Egypt person refused to judge forcibly displaced Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Arab nations person each been agreed successful their unyielding absorption to Trump’s plan. China has besides firmly stated, “Gaza belongs to Palestinians.”

During the gathering with Trump, Abdullah avoided straight contradicting Trump, alluding alternatively to an alternate program soon to beryllium revealed by Egypt.

When asked whether Jordan would instrumentality successful Palestinians displaced from Gaza, the Jordanian person said helium would bash what was “best” for his country. He added that Jordan would instrumentality 2,000 sick Palestinian children who request aesculapian treatment.

Jordan is presently location to much than 2 cardinal Palestinian refugees successful its colonisation of 11 cardinal people.

Safadi said Arab states are present moving to formulate a program to rebuild Gaza “without transferring its people,” which volition beryllium presented erstwhile it’s ready.

“The American president presented immoderate ideas. And, his majesty presented immoderate ideas,” helium said. “We volition enactment with the American president to physique Gaza without transferring its people.”

On Tuesday, Trump emphasised again that Palestinians would not privation to enactment successful Gaza, seemingly dismissing their heavy attachment to their land.

Critics accidental his imaginativeness for Gaza — redeveloped with hotels, offices and a “Riviera” ambiance — seems divorced from the authorities of the portion and that this is not different existent property opportunity. Palestinians person agelong withstood pressures to unit them from their remaining territory, contempt decades of continued Israeli concern and bombardment.