Abdel Fattah El-Sissi says that “the displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice” after the American president repeats himself for the appeal to Egypt and in Jordan to accept the residents of Gaza.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi said that Egypt will not participate in the displacement of the Palestinians, a few days after US President Donald Trump suggested that Arab countries take Palestinians from the Gaza Strip torn by war.
“Regarding what is said on the displacement of Palestinians, he can never be tolerated or authorized because of his impact on Egyptian national security,” said El-Sissi at a press conference on Wednesday.
“The expulsion or displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice in which we cannot participate,” he said.
Almost all 2.2 million Gaza residents were moved at least once since Israel launched his war against the territory in October 2023 in response to an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel.
After the ceasefire of Israel-Hamas entered into force earlier this month, Trump presented a plan to “clean” the Gaza Strip and move its residents in Jordan and Egypt. He returned to the idea this week, calling on the Palestinians to go to “safer” places such as Egypt or Jordan.
The displacement of the inhabitants of Gaza could be made “temporarily or could be long term,” he said.
But the idea of moving the Palestinians has long been rejected by the Palestinians and the regional countries, who say that this would undermine the concept of Palestinian state and fomiament instability in the Middle East.
Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi also rejected Trump’s suggestion, saying that “Jordan is for Jordanians and Palestine is for the Palestinians”.
Fear of movement
El-Sissi said that his government would work with the Trump administration to reach peace between Israel and Palestine “which is based on the two-state solution.”
“The solution … is the creation of a Palestinian state,” said El-Sissi. “The solution is not to remove the Palestinian people from their place.”
Movement was a recurring theme in Palestinian history and the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip that if they leave, they will never be allowed to return.
Since the start of the War of Israel at 15 months against Gaza, the Arab countries have warned several times against the plans to push the Palestinians in neighboring countries, affirming that such a decision would recall the Nakba in 1948, then That hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would have been moved for force for force for force for force for force for force for force for strength during the fighting that surrounded the creation of the Israeli State.
Egypt and Jordan have peace agreements with Israel and also support the creation of a Palestinian state in occupied West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. They fear that the permanent displacement of the population of Gaza will make a future state more difficult to achieve.
Egypt and Jordan are the main American allies in the Middle East and beneficiaries of American aid. The United States $ 1.3 billion in annual military assistance to Egypt were exempt from American funding for global aid programs this week.
