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Trump Proposes Relocating Gazans to Jordan, Egypt

CrossFireArabia
January 26, 2025

US President Donald Trump, Saturday, proposed relocating Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries like Egypt and Jordan. This is an unusual proposal that was opposed by the former administration of Joe Biden.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One towards Miami, the president said he raised the matter during a telephone call with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and he might talk with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.

“I said to him (Jordan’s king) that I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,” said Trump. “I’d like him (Jordan’s king) to take people”.

#BREAKING Trump proposes relocating Palestinians outside Gaza, says plan could be temporary, long term pic.twitter.com/v97O98nM0S
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) January 26, 2025

“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’m talking to Gen. Al Sisi tomorrow sometime I believe. I’d like Egypt to take people. And I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump continued.

“You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts. And I don’t know, something has to happen,” he added.

Describing Gaza as “a demolition site,” the US president said: “Almost everything is demolished and people are dying there. So l’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”

He added that the move “could be temporary or could be long-term.”

The Biden administration opposed relocating Gaza residents outside the enclave, advocating a return of Gazans to their homes in the aftermath of a potential peace and a two-state solution.

Israel’s genocidal war has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and injured over 111,000 since Oct. 7, 2023.

Since Jan. 19, a ceasefire is in place to bring respite to civilians in the Palestinian enclave, but Trump said last week he is not confident that the truce will hold.

“It’s not our war. It’s their war. I think they are very weakened on the other side,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I looked at a picture of Gaza. Gaza is like a massive demolition site. That place is. … It’s really got to be rebuilt in a different way,” he said.

“Gaza is interesting. It’s a phenomenal location on the sea, best weather, you know, everything’s good. It’s like some beautiful things could be done with it, but it’s very interesting, but some fantastic things could be done with Gaza,” Trump added according to Anadolu.

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Talks Under The Gun

CrossFireArabia
December 9, 2024

Optimistic reports of advancements in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, with Egypt, Qatar, and US mediation, over a ceasefire deal has been reported as Hamas sent Egypt the names of those Israeli prisoners destined to be released during the first phase.

This coincides with intensive Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. In the past 12 hours, Israel killed three people as a result of an airstrike near Halabi Junction in Jabalia Al-Balad, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli quadcopters also fired heavily at citizens attempting to reach their homes in the Safatwi area, west of Jabalia.

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Gaza Kids

CrossFireArabia
December 2, 2024

The United Nations reports that Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita globally, following over a year of Israel’s war on the enclave.

“Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world — many losing limbs and undergoing surgeries without even anaesthesia,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in remarks delivered by his deputy at a Cairo conference focused on accelerating humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Analyses

Netanyahu Wants War, Not Free The Captives – Israeli Analysts

CrossFireArabia
August 23, 2024

Israeli analysts said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would rather have his forces remain in the Philadelphi corridor on the border with Egypt than recover the living prisoners from the Gaza Strip. They stressed that the Israeli government is pushing to frustrate the ongoing truce negotiations.

According to Channel 12 military affairs correspondent Nir Dvori, the army estimates the six prisoners whose bodies Israel announced were recovered this week may have been killed by Israeli fire.

Dvori said that these prisoners had been held by Hamas for a long time and could have been returned alive. He added: It is crucial to reach a deal because “there are 109 other captives rotting in the tunnels and they can be saved.”

Ohad Hamo, Arab affairs correspondent for Channel 12, downplayed the moral significance of recovering the bodies of the prisoners. He said: “Hamas, historically, pays great attention to soldiers, which is understandable if we look at what happened with soldier Gilad Shalit.”

Netanyahu does not encourage negotiations

In this context, Dana Weiss, a political analyst for Channel 12, said Netanyahu himself said he does not believe there is a possibility of reaching an agreement regarding the prisoners and that he is determined to remain in the Netzarim and Philadelphi axes and he is committed to what guarantees him a return to fighting, stressing this kind of “talk does not encourage Hamas to negotiate.”

Weiss added: “In practice, Netanyahu has not budged on the issue of adhering to Netzarim and Philadelphi, and Egypt has confirmed this is unacceptable and there is a state of frustration among the negotiators and the security services.”

According to Weiss, the Israeli negotiators informed Netanyahu “there is no room for negotiations without showing flexibility on Netzarim and Philadelphi, but he told them that it is a political issue and that if he had to choose between Philadelphi and the prisoners, he would choose the former.”

Talia Danzig, the granddaughter of one of the six prisoners whose bodies were recovered from Gaza, said Netanyahu “has disappointed me repeatedly and I do not expect anything from him, but I expect the people to go to the square of the kidnapped (prisoners) because we do not want to live any longer in this calamity.”

She added to Channel 12: “We do not want to live in this devastation.. We want a deal that will return the prisoners alive in a safe manner without risking the lives of soldiers.”

Commenting on this statement, former army spokesman Ronen Manelis said: “You heard what Danzig said and the people who no longer care about the issue of the prisoners must wake up and return to the streets again.”

Manelis added: “Netanyahu must explain how the Philadelphi corridor became so important while Israel did not think of occupying it until eight months after the war and even if it withdrew from it, it can return to it again and reoccupy it within two days if Hamas rebuilds its capabilities,” noting Israel “delayed occupying this corridor because it was afraid to enter it.”

For her part, Moria Wallberg, a political affairs correspondent for Channel 13, said that the negotiating delegation’s visit to Cairo, scheduled for this week, is now in great doubt due to Netanyahu’s position, which renders the negotiations pointless, according to the head of the prisoners’ file in the army, Major General Nitzan Alon.

Wallberg said Netanyahu informed the negotiating team he knows how to manage negotiations and that he had previously managed them with the workers’ union, and that security officials responded that the labor union negotiations were without a time limit, while the prisoners’ negotiations are under pressure because every day that passes means the death of more of them.

Finally, Yisrael Ziv, former head of the army’s operations unit, said that Israel is doing nothing but retrieving bodies in coffins, noting “Hamas, after retrieving some of the prisoners alive, transferred the rest to places from which it is difficult to rescue them without a deal.”

Ziv concluded by saying: “They [Israeli army] returned six bodies and buried them without any ceremony or respect, and this reflects this government’s handling of the prisoners’ issue,” as stated on Jo24 based on the Al Jazeera Satellite Channel.