US President Donald Trump has again insisted that Egypt and Jordan would take in displaced Palestinians from Gaza, despite the two Arab nations dismissing his plan to move Palestinians from the territory, AFP reports.
“They will do it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked for his response to the Egyptian and Jordanian refusal, and whether he would consider imposing tariffs on either country to push them.
“They’re going to do it. We do a lot for them, and they’re going to do it.”
Trump’s comments came a day after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II rejecting any forced displacement of Gazans following Israel’s war on Gaza.
Egypt’s Sisi had said on Wednesday that displacing “the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice that we cannot take part in”. Jordan’s King Abdullah II separately stressed his country’s “firm position on the need to keep the Palestinians on their land”.