Palestinian refugees are being allowed to reenter areas of Gaza amid a ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas as White House officials are considering a plan to move them somewhere safer.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call with Jordan's King Abdullah on Monday, the State Department said, with the call coming two days after a suggestion by President Donald Trump that Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from Gaza.
President Trump said he had spoken to Jordan’s leader and planned to call Egypt’s. Mr. Trump’s suggestion echoes proposals from far-right Israelis. A Hamas official rejected the idea.
President Trump said he had spoken to Jordan’s leader and planned to call Egypt’s on Sunday. Most of Gaza’s two million residents have been displaced in 15 months of fighting.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday floated the idea that Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from Gaza, where Israel's military actions have killed tens of thousands and created a dire humanitarian situation.
Israel said Palestinians could start returning to the north of the war-battered Gaza Strip on Monday after a deal was reached with Hamas for the release of another six hostages. This was according to Israeli’s Prime Minister,
President Donald Trump said he wants Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations to accept more Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip, saying he would like to "just clean out" the area.
President Donald Trump says he would like to see Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip, potentially moving out enough of the population to "clean out" the area to create a virtual clean slate.
President-elect Donald Trump proposed a controversial plan aboard Air Force One: to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, suggesting it could bring stability to the region.
You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over,’” he says
Donald Trump advocated for resettling Palestinians outside of Gaza on Saturday, breaking with decades of U.S. policy advocating for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Trump said on Saturday that he spoke with the king of Jordan, floating a plan for Jordan and Egypt to take in refugees from the Gaza Strip.
Trump also said he's ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, which Biden had implemented out of concern for civilian casualties in Gaza.