THAT is NOT going ANYWHERE…
Trump peddles the Isreali hardline goal that has been evident from the jump….
Level Gaza…
Make it in habitable so Palestians’s RELOCATE from ‘Palestine’ to Jordan and Egypt….
Both of those countries do NOT want to house thosands of Gaza refugees looking to get back in to Gaza….
The idea isn’t gonna make the Saudi’s happy either, which is gonna worry Trump…
Hamas and others , of course are NOT gonna accept this as serious…
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But the idea appeared to be welcomed by hard-line Israeli politicians.
Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right finance minister in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted a statement on X on Sunday that seemed to refer to Mr. Trump’s comments, although he did not mention the U.S. president.
“After 76 years in which most of the population of Gaza was held by force under harsh conditions to maintain the ambition to destroy the State of Israel, the idea of helping them find other places to start a new, good life is a great idea,” he said.
Mr. Smotrich has long advocated for helping Gazans who want to leave to depart, and for the Israeli military to remain in the enclave to help pave the way for eventual Jewish settlement there.
Millions of Palestinian refugees are already living in camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, while others now live in other Arab countries — including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates — and around the world. But Palestinians and their Arab allies have long rejected any further resettlement outside Palestinian territories, saying that forcing Palestinians to leave would mean erasing any hope of a future Palestinian state. Without land, they say, there is no country…
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Virtually all Egyptians and Jordanians fervently support Palestinian aspirations for statehood, making it unlikely that either government would consent to such arrangement.
“This would be going against its base completely,” Maged Mandour, an Egyptian political analyst, said of the prospects of Egypt taking in large numbers of Palestinians. “It’s just a non-starter.”…
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Jordan is already home to many Palestinians and many Jordanians of Palestinian descent. Accepting refugees from Gaza would risk destabilizing a population that has never resolved tensions stemming from the original influx of Palestinians, analysts say….
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The cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza appeared increasingly fragile on Sunday after Israeli forces killed at least 22 people in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials said, while in Gaza, Israel prevented Palestinians from moving back north, saying Hamas had violated the terms of the truce.
In Lebanon, the Israeli military remained in southern Lebanon beyond the 60-day deadline for both Hezbollah and Israel to withdraw amid Israeli concerns that the armed group remained active there. Israeli forces opened fire as thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war poured onto roads leading south back to their homes. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said more than 120 people were injured.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had fired “warning shots” after what it described as “suspects” approached their forces. It also said that an unspecified number of people had been arrested and were now being questioned at the scene.
Later on Sunday the military reported that a vehicle bearing Hezbollah flags approached Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, prompting them to “remove the threat,” according to a statement. Additionally, the Israeli military said that its troops had encountered “dozens of rioters” and fired warning shots to disperse them.
The cease-fire agreement, which was signed in November and halted the deadliest war in decades between Israel and Hezbollah, stipulated that both sides withdraw from southern Lebanon, while the Lebanese Army and U.N. peacekeepers would be deployed in force to secure the area. Israel last Friday released a statementindicating it would remain in southern Lebanon amid doubts about the Lebanese Army’s ability to stymie Hezbollah’s resurgence. The United States and France, which are observers to the cease-fire, have not said publicly whether Hezbollah has withdrawn from the areas it agreed to leave.
Negotiators had hoped the cease-fire deal would become permanent, returning a measure of calm to a turbulent region. But as the deadline passed on Sunday, fears grew of a sustained Israeli occupation and renewed hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
In Gaza, Israeli troops were preventing Palestinians from returning to their homes in the north of the Gaza Strip on Sunday because Israel said Hamas had violated the terms of their cease-fire agreement that went into effect a week ago by not returning female captive Israeli civilians first. Israeli officials said that one particular civilian hostage, Arbel Yehud, was supposed to be one of the four women released on Saturday. Hamas accused Israel of stalling.
Despite the shakiness of the truces, all the warring sides appeared to want the cease-fires to hold, on condition that the terms were upheld by their adversaries.
Here is what else to know:
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Southern Lebanon: Residents of some southern Lebanese towns had called for their neighbors to gather early Sunday morning and head to their homes in a convoy, despite the warnings from Israel not to return. The Lebanese military said it was accompanying civilians returning to several border towns to try to ensure their safety. The military said in a statement that a Lebanese soldier was among those killed by Israeli fire. Israel did not immediately comment on that claim.
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Returning north: The Israeli government said that it would not allow displaced Palestinians to return to Gaza’s north until the issue of Ms. Yehud’s release was resolved. On Sunday, one of the smaller armed groups supported by Hamas in Gaza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said it was holding Ms. Yehud and that she would be released before next Saturday. Israel denied that any agreement had been reached on Ms. Yehud’s return. The holdup has left many Palestinians in a state of anxious waiting, as they were already packing their belongings, including kitchen supplies, clothing and mattress pads.
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Displaced Palestinians: A suggestion by President Trump to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and ask Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians raised new questions on Sunday about United States policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and two of its most important allies in the Middle East. Mr. Trump’s comments appeared to echo the wishes of the Israeli far right that Palestinians be encouraged to leave Gaza — an idea that goes to the heart of Palestinian fears that they will be driven from their remaining homelands…..
Jan 26, 2025 – ISW Press
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) agreed to release a female civilian hostage after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) prevented Palestinians from returning to the northern Gaza Strip on January 25 and 26. PIJ confirmed that hostage, Arbel Yehud, is “alive and in good health” and stated it will release Yehud after reaching an agreement with the mediators. Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement on January 25 by releasing female soldiers before female civilians. In response, the IDF maintained its position in the Netzarim Corridor along al Rashid Road—the coastal road that connects the northern and southern Gaza Strip—preventing Gazans from returning to the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF reiterated on January 26 that it will only fulfill its requirement to allow Palestinians to move to the northern part of the strip once PIJ releases Yehud. The Palestinian Resistance Committee (PRC) and PIJ jointly took Yehud hostage on October 7, 2023.
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