US President Donald Trump’s plan to take on Gaza and reset Palestinians will threaten the ceasefire agreement in the territory and feed regional instability, high-ranking Arab authorities said on Wednesday (12).
The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, warned the government’s world summit in Dubai that if Trump would go on with his plan, he would lead the Middle East to a new cycle of crises with a “harmful effect to peace and stability ”.
The US President enraged the Arab world by unexpectedly declaring that US government would take over Gaza, resent the Palestinian population of more than two million people and would develop it in the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
“If the situation explodes militarily once again, all this (ceasefire) effort will be wasted,” said Gheit.
Jasem al-Budaiwi, who leads the political and economic alliance of the Gulf Cooperation Council, rich in oil, asked Trump to remember the strong ties between the region and Washington.
“There has to be mutual concessions, he says his opinion and the Arab world must say his own; What he is saying will not be accepted by the Arab world. ”
The American leader said the Palestinians in Gaza could settle in countries such as Jordan, which already has a huge Palestinian population, and Egypt, the most populous state in the Arab world. Both rejected the proposal.
For Jordan, Trump’s conversation about resettlement comes close to his mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, with the idea that the country becomes an alternative Palestinian home has long promoted by ultranationalist Israelis.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sees it in part as a security issue.
He believes that Islamists like Hamas are an existential threat to Egypt and beyond, and would not welcome any member of the group crossing the border and settling in the country.
Egypt will host an emergency Arabic summit on February 27 to discuss “serious” developments for Palestinians.
Trump’s plan broke down decades of politics of the United States that endorsed a solution of two states in which Israel and a Palestinian state would coexist.
So far, 16 of the 33 hostages taken by Hamas of Israel militants have been released as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, which should last 42 days.
Five Thai hostages were also released in an unplanned release.
In return, Israel released hundreds of prisoners and detainees Palestinians, including some complying with perpetual penalties for deadly attacks and others detained during the war and kept without accusation.
This content was originally published in Arab League warns that Trump’s plan for Gaza “would inflammate” the Middle East on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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