At their meeting with Palestinian Authority Arab President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, the presidents of Egypt and Jordan urged the uprooted inhabitants to be allowed to return to their homes. They cautioned against any Israeli reoccupation in the Gaza Strip. While Israel continues what it claims would be a months-long military operation, Abbas, King Abdullah of Jordan, and Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of Egypt reiterated their opposition to any plans that would force Palestinians from their territories.
According to a statement from Sisi’s administration, the international community needed to take a “decisive stance” to press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The statement also said that the three leaders had reaffirmed “a complete rejection of any attempt to reoccupy parts of Gaza and the need to enable its people to return to their homes.”
Before meeting in Aqaba, Jordan, Abbas hematite US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Blinken has been pressuring Israel’s leaders to provide a road map for the creation of a Palestinian state and is currently on a regional tour that is scheduled to conclude in Egypt.
“The Arabs are telling the Americans the priority now is to get a ceasefire and push Israel to allow Palestinians to go back to northern Gaza and ease the overcrowding near (the southern town of) Rafah, which is alarming both the Egyptians and the Jordanians,” according to a Jordanian official.
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