United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Abu Dhabi rejected any displacement of Palestinians, official media has said, AFP reports.

Sheikh Mohammed “affirmed the UAE’s firm position rejecting any attempts aimed at displacing the Palestinian people from their land”, the Gulf state’s WAM news agency said following a US proposal to take over the besieged Gaza Strip and move its inhabitants, adding that the president “stressed the need for the reconstruction of Gaza to be linked to a path leading to comprehensive and lasting peace based on the two-state solution”.

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