Thousands of people demonstrated at the Rafah border crossing on Friday, an eyewitness told Reuters, in a rare state-sanctioned protest against a proposal earlier this week by U.S. President Donald Trump for Egypt and Jordan to accept Gazan refugees.
Donald Trump has ratcheted up the pressure on Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza, raising the prospect that the US president could use substantial aid as leverage for his idea of resettling people from the shattered enclave.
US President Donald Trump’s proposal to “clean out” the Gaza Strip by moving more than a million Palestinians to neighboring countries has drawn sharp criticism, with opponents condemning it as ethnic cleansing and warning of regional chaos.
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Trump wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Here's why the idea is rejected
Egyptian president dismisses Trump’s Palestinian resettlement plan as ‘injustice’
Abdel Fattah el Sissi denied Donald Trump's request for the resettlement of Palestinian refugees in his country, calling the plan an "act of injustice."
Sisi says Egypt will not participate in ‘act of injustice’ displacing Palestinians
The head of the MTA said he remained optimistic that President Donald Trump would not repeal New York’s congestion pricing program, even as the new president had conversations with Gov. Kathy Hochul in recent days about the plan’s future.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II rejected on Wednesday any forced displacement of Gazans after US President Donald Trump floated an idea to move Palestinians from the territory.
Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, an "act of injustice" that would threaten Egyptian security, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday in his first public response to U.
Gaza A high-level Hamas delegation has held talks with Egyptian officials in Cairo, and met about 70 Palestinian detainees freed by Israel and sent into exile as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, sources told The National on Tuesday.
Egypt said today that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did not speak by phone with Donald Trump at the weekend ... “temporarily or long-term”. Cairo is a key US ally in the region, and was ...
The rejection of Trump's trial balloon is telling. In May 2024, Cairo joined South Africa in its spurious legal case at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of war crimes—without any evidence.
By Nandita Bose, Kanishka Singh and Nidal al-Mughrabi ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/Cairo (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said Jordan and Egypt should take in Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza, a suggestion rejected by Hamas,
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