Trump reiterates his insistence on displacement and says: Palestinians have no alternative but to leave Gaza

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the Palestinians have no alternative but to leave the Gaza Strip. He indicated that he wants Egypt and Jordan to receive Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

Trump claimed that the Palestinians would "very much" leave the besieged Gaza Strip to live elsewhere if given the chance, adding, "I think they would be very happy to do so."

Trump said, "Jordan and Egypt have already refused to accept residents from Gaza, but there are those who refuse things and then come back to agree to them," he said.

The Palestinians reject Trump's idea of displacing them from the Strip, stressing that they will remain on their land even if the reconstruction process of the Strip, which was destroyed by the war, is delayed.

As soon as the ceasefire agreement went into effect in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of displaced people from the southern and central areas of the Strip began returning to their destroyed areas.

According to government media in the Strip, those returning to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip need 135,000 tents and caravans, which Israel had not allowed to enter until Monday.

Hamas says that the humanitarian protocol in the ceasefire agreement stipulates the entry of 200,000 tents and 60,000 caravans into the Strip during the first phase, which lasts for six weeks.

Upon his return to the White House, Trump proposed “cleaning up” Gaza and moving the Palestinians to “safer” places such as Egypt or Jordan, sparking international protests.

Trump announced yesterday, Monday, that there are “no guarantees” that the ceasefire in effect in the Strip will remain in place.

“I have no guarantee that the peace will hold,” he told reporters at the White House on the eve of his meeting with Netanyahu, before his special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who was sitting next to him, took the floor to say that the truce “is holding so far and so we certainly hope… that we will get the hostages out, save lives and hopefully reach a peaceful settlement of the whole situation.”

(Agencies)