U.S., Israel interested in Sudan, Somalia and Syria for resettlement of Gazans, sources say
Familiar with the efforts, the Trump administration and Israeli ties with the Sudan and Somalia are also interested in Syria as a potential place for Syria to relocate Palestinians from Gaza.
The idea of Palestine’s resettlement in another country is one of several options the Trump team is chewing on, part of the larger goal of the U.S. president in Gaza’s war with Hamas and rebuilding the destroyed Palestinian enclave.
“No one expels any Palestinians,” President Trump said Wednesday. At the time, the Irish prime minister was asked by a U.S. reporter at the Oval Office meeting of the two leaders about the president’s controversial remarks in February, when he suggested hiring all-power rebuilding in Gaza.
Mr. Trump made a remark with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a February 4 press conference, saying Gaza may be “The Riviera of the Middle East.“
“We should take the humanitarian heart to other countries of interest, many of whom want to do so and build various fields that will eventually be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending death and destruction,” Trump said.
Two diplomatic sources confirmed to CBS News that Israeli and U.S. officials had communicated with Sudan and Somalia. far-right Israeli government officials Already called For Palestinians to migrate from the enclave. Mr. Trump’s remarks only motivate Israel to engage with other countries in order to explore opportunities for Palestine resettlement, a source said.
Three familiar with Mr. Trump’s idea of moving Gazans to another country told CBS News that his administration and Israel are also interested in Syria. A source familiar with Trump’s administration’s Middle East policy said the administration has attempted to preach to Syria’s new interim administration through third-party interlocutors. Another source in the region told CBS News that the Syrian government is approaching, but it is not clear whether Syria has any response to propaganda.
A senior Syrian official told CBS News they were not aware of any Israel or the U.S. relocating Gaza people to the government.
“Neither the U.S. government nor the Israeli authorities contacted the Somali government on any proposal to move Palestinians to Somalia,” said Dahir Hassan, Somalia’s ambassador to the United States. Hassan also cited concerns that “this dissemination of unverified information could recruit propaganda for extremist groups such as ISIS and Al Shabaab, which could exacerbate security challenges in the region.”
The Sudanese government has not responded to a request for comment from CBS News.
Syria’s fledgling provisional government is only three months old Overthrow Bashar al-Assad For decades, his cruel regime held the iron fist of the Syrian people. Northeastern Arab African country Sudan is currently involved in a crisis in a civil war and refugee crisis famine. Over the past two decades, thousands of Sudanese refugees have sought asylum in Israel until they are detained in desert-based detention in the country, or live without any formal status. The East African country Somalia is a fragile, formerly defeated country, and the radical Islamic group, Al-Shabaab, continues to launch a deadly rebellion.
Since the February 4 press conference, Mr. Trump has suggested that Palestinians have the option to leave or not, but also suggests that their departure from Gaza may be permanent. exist Fox News Interview A few days later, he said: “We will build beautiful communities, safe communities, maybe five, six, maybe two. But we will build safe communities (Palestinians) where they are.” In the same interview, he explain That Palestinian has no right to return to Gaza under his plan because the enclave is “unhabitable” and will not return to Gaza in the next few years.
United Nations Report in January More than 90% of housing units in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and 1.9 million Gaza civilians have been displaced. The Gaza Ministry of Health said more than 48,000 Palestinians were killed in the war between Israel and Hamas, which began with the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, in which Hamas killed more than 1,000 Israelis and killed about 100 hostages.
Several Arab governments, the United Nations and some Democratic lawmakers have quickly condemned Mr. Trump’s idea of emptying Gaza for ethnic cleansing with certain ideas. Instead, Arab leaders endorsed Gaza’s plans to replace Egypt’s post-war construction, but both the Trump administration and Israel Quick rejection Again, the Gaza Strip is not habitable.
Former President Joe Biden’s administration regularly sends U.S. officials to meet with the new Syrian government in Damascus to consult Mr. Trump’s inauguration. Syria’s new leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, quickly condemned Mr. Trump’s remarks in February, saying the U.S. president’s plan “is a serious crime,” Will eventually fail“It is not clear what the Trump administration’s overall policy toward the new Syrian government is.
“The Trump administration should engage directly with the new government in Damascus, particularly after the agreement between Damascus and the SDF (the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces). And to ensure that Iran never again gains a footballold in Syria, for the true, ending defeat of ISIS, and to conduct a full withdrawal of US forces in the right way unlike what unfolded in Afghanistan,” Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Washington-based advocacy and humanitarian organization Syria Emergency Task Force told CBS News.
Since December, Israel has carried out extensive air strikes in Syria, which are said about the weapons sites of the Assad regime and seized territory in the buffer zone between the two countries. Over the past week, Israel has attacked the Damascus suburbs, saying it is occupying the headquarters of the Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed militant group that has a huge foothold in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
A State Department spokesman handed it to the Israeli government and told CBS News that the Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff “continues tirelessly to extend the first phase (the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement), or to raise the attitude of the second phase in the second phase.
The State Council also mentioned Witkoff’s speech February Fox News interview “We need to explore new policy prescriptions that ultimately make better lives for Gaza and Palestinians,” he said.
Witkov also suggested in the same Fox interview that the entire Palestinian population in Gaza might go to other Arab countries in the Middle East and other countries outside the region: “I think the president’s solution is: how we solve where 2 million people can go, and I think the obvious answer is: in some ways, in some ways, in some ways, in some ways, in some ways, in some ways, in some ways, in some ways, in some ways, our efforts are an effort; you”.
On Sunday, Margaret Brennan, the host of “Facing the Country”, asked if the Trump administration is talking with other countries about relocating 2 million Palestinians in Gaza Vickov said again “I think we are exploring Margaret, all the alternatives and options that will lead to a better life for the Gaza people. By the way, for the people of Israel.
Millions of displaced Palestinians have lived in the surrounding Arab countries, including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. The far-right Israeli ministers are increasingly calling for the relocation of Palestinians to Gaza and to move them out of the land in the West Bank, part of an extreme view that will realize Jewish biblical claims on the land and improve Israel’s security.
The Israeli government, the White House and its National Security Council all declined to respond to multiple CBS news requests for comment.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former adviser, first suggested that Gaza was very valuable if people focused on building livelihoods if they focused on building livelihoods. February 2024.
The Associated Press is the first Friday report The United States and Israel contacted Sudan, Somalia, and Somaliland to resolve Palestinians in Gaza.
