The American president suggested that Egypt and Jordan should welcome Palestinians from Gaza.
Foreign ministers in five Arab countries have published a joint declaration rejecting the forced displacement of the Palestinians from their land.
The declaration, published on Saturday, presented a unified position against the appeal of American president Donald Trump to Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from Gaza.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and civil servants of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League declared that the proposed decision of Trump would threaten stability in The region spread conflicts and would undermine the perspectives of peace.
“We affirm our rejection of (any attempt) to compromise the inalienable rights of the Palestinians, whether through settlement activities, or evictions or annexes of land or to leave the lands of its owners … under Any form whatsoever or in any circumstance or justification, ”the seal.
The meeting came after Trump said last week that Egypt and Jordan should welcome Palestinians from Gaza, that he called a “demolition site” after 15 months of Israeli bombardment which made most of its 2.3 million homeless people.
Egypt and Jordan – the key allies of the United States in the region – have repeatedly rejected Trump’s proposal to “clean” Gaza. Jordan is home to several million Palestinians, while tens of thousands live in Egypt.
On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi also rejected Trump’s idea and said that the Egyptians were going down to the street to express their disapproval.
“The displacement of the Palestinian people of their lands is an injustice in which we cannot participate,” he added.
However, Thursday, Trump reiterated the idea by saying: “We do a lot for them, and they will do it”, in apparent reference to abundant American aid, including military assistance in Egypt and Jordan.
Analysts said Trump’s proposal would be an ethnic cleaning.
Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine / Israel program at the Washington DC Arab Center, Trump’s “scandalous” declaration should be sentenced to Tel Aviv Tribune in Tel Aviv Tribune to have violated all standards and fundamental rights told Tel Aviv Tribune.
“Trump says all kinds of things,” said Munayyer, explaining that the American president’s statement should be made with a hint of skepticism.
“Sometimes these are things he means. Sometimes these are things that he does not mean. Sometimes these are things he heard in a conversation he had five minutes ago. Sometimes these are things he thinks he heard but misunderstood. »»
Foreign Ministers stressed on Saturday that they “look forward to working with the administration of US President Donald Trump to obtain just and complete peace in the Middle East, in accordance with the two-state solution”.
They also welcomed Egypt’s plans to organize an international conference in the near future with the United Nations who would be focused on the reconstruction of Gaza and affirmed the main UN aid agency to especially flattened during the war of fifteen months between Israel and Hamas.
