The Associated Press: America and Israel offered the resettlement of the people of Gaza to 3 African countries
Abdullah Al-Haqim 
The Associated Press news agency reported that the United States and Israel offered officials in 3 African countries to settle Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip on its soil.
The agency today, Friday, quoted US and Israeli officials as saying that the United States and Israel have contacted officials in 3 countries in East Africa to discuss the use of its territory to resettle the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
The agency stated on the sources that communication was made with officials from Sudan, Somalia and the separatist Somaliland region regarding the proposal.
Sudanese rejection and Somali denial
The agency added that Sudanese officials said they rejected the American proposal, while Somalia and Somal land officials said they were not aware of any contacts in this regard.
Two Sudanese officials, they spoke to the agency, provided that their identity was not disclosed, that the Trump administration contacted the Sudanese government about accepting the settlers of the Palestinians of Gaza, but it refused the proposal immediately, while one of them said that the communications began even before Trump’s inauguration of military assistance bids against the rapid support forces and assistance in reconstruction after the war and other incentives.
The agency stated that contacts with Sudan, Somalia, and the separatist Somalia region known as Somalia land reflects the intention of the United States and Israel to move forward in a widely convicted plan and raised serious legal and moral issues.
She said that the idea of collective displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza was one day considered imagination of the extreme right in Israel, but since US President Donald Trump presented the idea at a White House meeting last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised and described it as a bold vision.
The Palestinians in Gaza rejected the proposal, and they rejected the Israeli allegations that the departure would be voluntary, and the Arab countries expressed their strong opposition to the proposal, and presented an alternative plan to reconstruct the sector without the displacement of its residents, while human rights organizations confirmed that forcing the Palestinians to leave or pressure them to achieve this may represent a possible war crime.
The White House and the US State Department have not yet responded to Reuters requests for a comment. Also, the Minister of Information in Somalia and the Somaliland separatist area did not respond to Reuters phone telecommunications for a comment.
A new position for Trump
In his latest position, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he “will not be expelled by any Palestinian from the Gaza Strip”, in a noticeable retreat from his previous statements in which he called for the deportation of the Gazans to the neighboring Arab countries in order to build the “Middle East Rvira” in the sector destroyed by the Israeli genocide.
Trump’s comments came during a press conference in Washington with Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin, who arrived in the United States on an unlimited visit.
In a press question about his plan to expel the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Trump replied that “no Palestinian from Gaza will be expelled,” stressing at the same time that Washington is working “hard” in coordination with Israel to reach a solution to the situation in Gaza.
Since January 25, the US President has been promoting the plan to transfer the Palestinians of Gaza to neighboring countries, such as Egypt and Jordan, which was rejected by the two countries, and other Arab countries and regional and international organizations joined them.
In early February, he presented his plan in this regard, in which he proposed permanently displacement of Palestinians and that the United States takes control of the sector with the launch of a plan to rebuild it and transfer it to “Riviera Middle East.”
In another step that sparked widespread controversy, Trump released late last month a video created with artificial intelligence on his “Truth Social” platform, showing the Gaza Strip and has turned into a luxury tourist city, in a scene that seemed completely separate from the tragic reality experienced by the residents of the Strip.
The Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of Gaza
On the fourth of this month, the Arab leaders agreed during their emergency in Cairo a plan prepared by Egypt for the reconstruction of Gaza, which takes 5 years, cost 53 billion dollars, and confirmed their refusal to displace the Palestinians from their land.
But Israel and the United States rejected the plan, and held a Trump plan to displace the Palestinians of Gaza into other countries.
With an American support, Israel has committed, since October 7, 2023, a group extermination in Gaza, which left more than 160,000 martyrs and wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, and more than 14 thousand missing.
