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Hamas, Islamic Jihad terror groups oppose Trump’s proposal for Jordan, Egypt to take in Gazans
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A senior Hamas official tells AFP that the Palestinian terror group opposes US President Donald Trump’s idea to relocate Gazans to Egypt and Jordan to “just clean out” the war-torn area and create a virtual clean slate.
“As they have foiled every plan for displacement and alternative homelands over the decades, our people will also foil such projects,” says Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, referring to Trump’s comments.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group also condemns Trump’s idea, calling it an encouragement of “war crimes.”
Describing Trump’s idea as “deplorable,” the terror group states: “This proposal falls within the framework of encouraging war crimes and crimes against humanity by forcing our people to leave their land.”
Trump said yesterday he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip.
The proposal has to date been a red line for Arab states, particularly Jordan and Egypt, which have viewed the mass migration of Palestinians to their countries as a potential existential threat. They have pointed to Israel’s refusal to publicly commit to allowing any Palestinians who leave the Strip to later return, and don’t want to be seen as complicit in an exile of Palestinians.
The Times of Israel Community.