Rebuff comes as German chancellor warns Iran and Hezbollah not to intervene in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The king of Jordan poured cold water on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s hopes that neighboring Arab countries could take in Palestinian refugees who are fleeing the Gaza Strip ahead of an anticipated ground offensive by the Israeli army.

The rebuff by King Abdullah II was made Tuesday morning at a press conference with Scholz following a meeting in the chancellery in Berlin, which Scholz also used to issue a warning to Iran and to Hezbollah against intervening in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

“I think I can speak here on behalf of Jordan … but also our friends in Egypt: This is a red line … no refugees to Jordan and also no refugees to Egypt,” King Abdullah said at the press conference.

  • AdeptusPrimaris@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is Egypt’s reasoning as well. The US and Israel want Egypt to accept all the Palestinians in exchange for Israel opening and not bombing the border crossing.

    Egypt said no, they have to allow humanitarian aid into south Gaza, and stop the bombing in south Gaza. And only dual citizens are allowed to leave.

    South Gaza is where Israel said the Palestinians should evacuate to. Note that Israel is bombing north and south Gaza.

    Israel is refusing. They want all the Palestinians out of their land.

    I mean, this is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing. Israel is commiting ethnic cleansing and genocide for everyone to see. They’re not even being subtle about it in the language they’ve used at press conferences.

    The US, European Union countries and their allies are willing accomplices to ethnic cleansing and genocide. They are absolutely complicit in the murder of Palestinian men, women and children.

    Will any of them be denounced by the International criminal court? Are they going to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and the others for clearly commiting war crimes?

    We all know the answer to that.

    Edit: if Palestinians leave Gaza they would never be allowed to return. Israel will annexe that land like they’ve done with Palestinian land countless times before. And it will become the new normal to pretend that the land was always part of Israel.