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Jordan Says its Stance Against Displacement of Palestinians Remains ‘Firm’

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, January 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, January 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak
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Jordan Says its Stance Against Displacement of Palestinians Remains ‘Firm’

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, January 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, January 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak

Amman rejected on Sunday a suggestion by US President Donald Trump that Jordan and Egypt take more Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters that the country's stance against any displacement of Palestinians from Gaza remains "firm and unwavering.”

Trump, who took office on Jan. 20, said on Saturday after a call with Jordan's King Abdullah: "I said to him I'd love you to take on more because I'm looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it's a mess, it's a real mess. I'd like him to take people.”

"I'd like Egypt to take people," Trump told reporters.

Such a drastic displacement of people would openly contradict Palestinian identity and deep connection to Gaza. Still, Trump said the part of the world that encompasses Gaza, has “had many, many conflicts” over centuries. He said resettling “could be temporary or long term.”

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Israel’s Defense Minister Says Troops Will Remain in Syrian Buffer Zone Indefinitely

Israeli soldiers patrol the top of Mount Hermon near the border with Lebanon in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights on 20 November 2023. (AFP)
Israeli soldiers patrol the top of Mount Hermon near the border with Lebanon in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights on 20 November 2023. (AFP)
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Israel’s Defense Minister Says Troops Will Remain in Syrian Buffer Zone Indefinitely

Israeli soldiers patrol the top of Mount Hermon near the border with Lebanon in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights on 20 November 2023. (AFP)
Israeli soldiers patrol the top of Mount Hermon near the border with Lebanon in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights on 20 November 2023. (AFP)

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz visited the Syrian summit of Mount Hermon, currently occupied by Israeli forces, on Tuesday and said Israel will remain there and in the buffer zone for an “unlimited time.”

Katz said Israel must stay in the zone to ensure “hostile forces” will not gain a foothold on the Israeli border nor anywhere within 50 kilometers (30 miles) beyond the zone, citing security for Israeli residents in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

For decades, the Syrian-Israeli border remained largely quiet under a 1974 agreement that established a UN-patrolled demilitarized buffer zone after the 1973 Mideast war.

But after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster in December, Israeli forces entered the 400-square-kilometer (155-square mile) buffer zone, calling it a temporary move to block hostile forces.

However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later said Israel will stay in the zone until another arrangement is in place “that ensures Israel’s security.” That drew criticism from residents of the zone and Arab countries.