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#Trump wants #Jordan & #Egypt to accept more #refugees & floats plan to ‘just clean out’ #Gaza
Trump said Sat he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt & other #Arab nations increase the number of #Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the #GazaStrip — potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create virtual clean slate.
#EthnicCleansing #geopolitics #Israel #Hamas #US
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-israel-bomb-gaza-hamas-war-023b36984c6116c128b5e47f117bba2a
During a 20min Q&A session w/reporters aboard Air Force One on Sat, #Trump said he discussed his vision on a call earlier in the day w/ King #Abdullah II of #Jordan & would speak Sunday w/President Abdel Fattah el #Sisi of #Egypt.
“I’d like him to take people. I’d like Egypt to take people,” said Trump. “You’re talking about, probably a million & a half people, & we just clean out that whole thing & say, ‘You know it’s, over.’”
Speaking about the effects of #Israel’s war w/ #Hamas in #Gaza, #Trump said he complimented #Jordan for having successfully accepted Palestinian refugees & told the king, “I’d love for you to take on more, cause I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, & it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”
He said of such a mass movement of #Palestinians, “it could be temporary or long term,” adding the area of the world that encompasses Gaza, “over centuries” has “had many, many conflicts.”
#Trump also ended #Biden’s hold on sending 2,000-pound #bombs to #Israel, lifting a pressure point that had been meant to reduce #civilian casualties during Israel’s war w/ #Hamas in #Gaza that is now halted by a tenuous #ceasefire.
Trump said, “A lot of things that were ordered & paid for by Israel, but have not been sent by Biden, are now on their way!”
“We released them today,” #Trump said of the #bombs. “They’ve been waiting for them for a long time. You know, they’ve been in storage for a long time & we released them today to #Israel.”
#Biden halted delivery of the large bombs in May as part of an effort to keep Israel from launching an all-out assault on the southern #Gaza city of #Rafah. A month later, Israel did take control of the city, but after the vast majority of the 1M #civilians that had been living or sheltering in Rafah had fled.
