Israel seeks to ‘ethnically cleanse as much of Gaza as possible’: Analysis
Abdullah Al-Arian, a Middle East specialist at Georgetown University in Qatar, says President Trump’s comments asking Egypt and Jordan to accept 1.5 million war-displaced Palestinians from Gaza is a credible threat and not just an off-the-cuff remark.
“There’s reason to take it seriously in part because we’ve seen this specific demand being made over the last year. This is something many Israeli officials indicated very early on in the course of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza is that they sought to ethnically cleanse as much of that territory as possible,” al-Arian told Al Jazeera.
“That plan has failed for multiple reasons with Arab leaders who were approached at that time simply declining to take on additional Palestinian refugee populations.”
The Palestinians themselves were also not interested in another “mass ethnic cleansing”, he added.
“They know all too well what it means to leave their home and what the status of Palestinian refugees has looked like for the past 70 years.”
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