CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said Wednesday that forced displacement of Gazans is an “injustice that we cannot take part in,” after US President Donald Trump floated a plan to move Palestinians from the territory to Egypt and Jordan.
“The deportation and displacement of the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice that we cannot take part in,” El-Sisi said during a news conference in Cairo with Kenyan President William Ruto.
El-Sisi added that Egypt’s historic position on the Palestinian cause “can never be compromised.”
El-Sisi said Egypt supported “the establishment of a Palestinian state” and was “determined to work with President Trump, who seeks to achieve the desired peace based on the two-state solution.”
“We believe that President Trump is capable of fulfilling this long-awaited goal of establishing a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,” he said.
After the Israel-Hamas ceasefire came into force on January 19, Trump touted a plan to “clean out” the Gaza Strip, reiterating the idea on Monday as he called for Palestinians to move to “safer” locations such as Egypt or Jordan.
Speaking to reporters on Monday evening, Trump said that he hoped El-Sisi “would take some” Gazans.
“We helped them a lot, and I’m sure he’d help us,” he said.
“As they say, it’s a rough neighborhood, but I think he would do it, and I think the king of Jordan would do it too.”
Jordan too rejected the idea, saying: “Jordan is for Jordanians and Palestine is for Palestinians.”
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023 both countries have warned of plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza into neighboring Egypt and from the West Bank into Jordan.
El-Sisi has repeatedly warned that such a displacement would “eradicate the case for Palestinian statehood.”
Egypt is a key Arab ally of the United States and was the only country besides Israel to receive an exemption from Trump’s foreign aid freeze this week.
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- “The deportation and displacement of the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice that we cannot take part in,” El-Sisi said
Drone strikes blamed on Iran hit Iranian Kurdish camp in Iraq: official, exiled group
IRBIL: Drone stikes blamed on Iran hit on Tuesday a camp hosting Iranian Kurdish fighters and family members in northern Iraq, a local official and an exiled opposition group said.
Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region hosts camps and rear-bases operated by several Iranian Kurdish rebel groups, which have repeatedly faced cross-border strikes from Iran.
A local official in the Koysinjaq district, Tareq Al-Haidari, told AFP “three Iranian drones targeted the Azadi camp, which belongs to Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in the district.”
One drone directly hit the camp’s hospital, wounding one person, said Haidari and a commander from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI).
PDKI commander Mohammed Nazif Kader told AFP “drones and missiles attacked the camp,” blaming the attack on Iran.
For decades, the Koysinjaq district, known as Koya to Kurds, has been home to the PDKI.
Iran has designated Kurdish opposition groups as terrorist organizations, and has accused them of serving Western or Israeli interests in the past.
These groups have previously fought Iranian security forces in Kurdish-majority areas along the border.
But in recent years, they have largely refrained from armed activity, although they continue to actively campaign from exile against the Islamic republic.
Last week, five groups, including the PDKI, announced a political coalition to seek the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic republic and ultimately to secure Kurdish self-determination.
Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region hosts camps and rear-bases operated by several Iranian Kurdish rebel groups, which have repeatedly faced cross-border strikes from Iran.
A local official in the Koysinjaq district, Tareq Al-Haidari, told AFP “three Iranian drones targeted the Azadi camp, which belongs to Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in the district.”
One drone directly hit the camp’s hospital, wounding one person, said Haidari and a commander from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI).
PDKI commander Mohammed Nazif Kader told AFP “drones and missiles attacked the camp,” blaming the attack on Iran.
For decades, the Koysinjaq district, known as Koya to Kurds, has been home to the PDKI.
Iran has designated Kurdish opposition groups as terrorist organizations, and has accused them of serving Western or Israeli interests in the past.
These groups have previously fought Iranian security forces in Kurdish-majority areas along the border.
But in recent years, they have largely refrained from armed activity, although they continue to actively campaign from exile against the Islamic republic.
Last week, five groups, including the PDKI, announced a political coalition to seek the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic republic and ultimately to secure Kurdish self-determination.
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