Iran joins other countries of the Middle East to reject Trump’s proposal to move the Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.
Iran condemned the proposal of the American president Donald Trump to move the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, joining other countries of the region to reject the plan.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Monday that the international community should help Palestinians “secure their right to self-determination … rather than put pressure for other ideas that would equip cleaning ethnic”.
Baghaei’s remarks have intervened after Trump repeatedly floated an idea to “clean” the Gaza Strip and move its entire population in Egypt and Jordan.
Trump described Gaza as a “demolition site” after 15 months of Israeli bombing which made most of the 2.3 million people in the territory.
“‘Cleaning out’ Gaza … is part of the colonial erasure of (the) Gaza Strip and all of Palestine,” said Baghaei, adding that no third party “can decide the future of the Palestinian territory .
Iran and Israel, enemies for years, saw their first direct exchange of fire during the war in Gaza.
The regional rejection of the American plan comes when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington, DC, where he should become the first foreign leader to meet Trump since his return to the presidency.
Before boarding his flight to Tel Aviv on Sunday, the Israeli Prime Minister said he would discuss “victory over Hamas”, thwarting Iran and releasing all the captives held by Hamas when he meets Trump Tuesday.
Egypt and Jordan – the main American allies in the region – have severely rejected Trump’s proposal for mass travel to Gaza.
On Saturday, the foreign ministers of five Arab countries published a joint statement presenting a unified position against Trump’s appeal 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 annexation of the land or to leave the land of its owners … under Any form whatsoever or in any circumstance or justifications ”, the declaration read.
Last week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi also said that the displacement of Palestinians in Egypt would mean “instability for Egyptian national security and Arabic national security in our region”.
“I say clearly: the displacement of the Palestinian people of their land is an injustice in which we will not participate,” said El-Sissi.
Despite the counterpoup, Trump insisted that Egypt and Jordan will eventually accept his requests for the displacement of the Gaza population.
“They will, ok?” He told journalists last week. “We do a lot for them, and they will do it.”
Rights defense groups warn that forced displacement may constitute a crime against humanity under international law.
In 1994, United Nations experts defined ethnic cleaning as “a determined policy designed by an ethnic or religious group to eliminate violent and inspiring terrorism means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group of certain geographic areas” .
