WASHINGTON — Jordanian King Abdullah II instructed President Trump on Tuesday that his nation will absorb 2,000 sick kids from the Gaza Strip — as Trump insisted that Amman absorb many extra of the roughly 2 million Palestinians within the enclave to permit the US to assert the territory freed from cost.
“One of many issues that we are able to do immediately is take 2,000 kids which are both most cancers kids or in a really in poor health state to Jordan as rapidly as potential,” the king stated within the Oval Workplace — one week after Trump shockingly stated the US would take over Gaza and convert it into the “Riviera of the Center East.”
Abdullah’s authorities beforehand rejected Trump’s plan to deport Gazans to his nation and to Egypt, and the monarch stated Tuesday that after taking within the kids, he would “then watch for, I feel, the Egyptians to current their plan on how we are able to work with the president.”
Cairo additionally has rejected Trump’s plan to empty Gaza’s inhabitants — with Trump saying many Palestinians wouldn’t need to ever return to their homeland — however the president has continued to demand that Israel’s Arab neighbors relent and go together with the plan.
Trump instructed Abdullah that “what you simply stated in regards to the 2,000 is implausible. It’s so lovely. It’s music to my ears.”
The president additionally stated he believes Amman and Cairo will put aside parcels of land for Gaza refugees — saying he was “99%” sure they’d achieve this.
“It’s going to be the place we finally select as a bunch. And I imagine we’ll have a parcel of land in Jordan. I imagine we’ll have a parcel of land in Egypt. We could have someplace else, however I feel once we end our talks, we’ll have a spot the place they’re going to stay very fortunately and really safely,” he stated.
Gaza “may very well be a diamond,” Trump added.
“It’s fronting on the ocean. It’s going to be a terrific financial improvement job. It’s going to place individuals to work, lots of people to work. And people individuals are all going to be from the Center East,” he stated.
Trump beforehand floated Israel handing over management of the area after clearing out the inhabitants and any remaining Hamas terrorists after 16 months of preventing, and he confirmed Tuesday that he believes the US wouldn’t must pay for the territory.
“We’re not going to purchase something. We’re going to have it. We’re going to maintain it,” Trump stated within the Oval Workplace.
“And we’re going to guarantee that there’s going to be peace and there’s not going to be any downside, and no person’s going to query it.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been supportive of Trump’s imaginative and prescient for taking up Gaza.
Trump initially stated final week he’d be prepared to dispatch US troops to safe Gaza earlier than later saying he wouldn’t, and has emphasised that he expects rich regional nations to place up funds for reconstruction.
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