Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Saturday Palestinians will not leave Gaza or the West Bank to migrate to Egypt.
"Our decision is to remain in our land," Haniyeh said in a televised speech, while addressing Egypt in that part of his address.
Israel has made calls for more than a million of the Gaza Strip’s residents to leave their homes and head south.
Egypt shares a border with Gaza and has been alarmed by the possibility that the enclave's residents could be displaced by Israel's siege and bombardment of the territory, launched in retaliation for a devastating incursion by Hamas militants.
Like other Arab states, Egypt has said that Palestinians should stay on their lands as the war escalates, and that it is working to secure delivery of aid into the Gaza Strip.
