This handout picture shows Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and the United Nations Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza (SHRC) Sigrid Kaag giving a joint press conference in Amman. AFP
In statements after a meeting in Amman with Sigrid Kaag, the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process and Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, Safadi said: “The solution to the Palestinian issue is in Palestine, and Jordan is for Jordanians, and Palestine is for Palestinians."
The Jordanian foreign minister's remarks came a day after US President Donald Trump floated the idea of relocating Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to Arab countries.
On Saturday evening, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he had told Jordan's King Abdullah II: "I'd love you to take on more because I'm looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it's a mess, it's a real mess."
The US president said he planned to present the same proposal to the Egyptian president on Sunday.
However, FM Safadi clarified on Sunday that Amman rejected any such proposals outright.
“Our rejection of displacement is firm and will not change, and it is necessary for achieving the stability and peace that we all desire,”
“Our principles are clear, and ensuring the Palestinians remain on their land is a Jordanian stance that will not change,” he added.
In tandem, also on Sunday, a high-level Egyptian source told Al Hadath TV channel that Egypt maintains its firm stance against the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to other locations and has conveyed its position to the new US administration.
For her part, Kaag told Safadi that a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict was possible.
During their meeting, Safadi and Kaag also discussed securing the current ceasefire in Gaza and enhancing the delivery of aid to the strip, which was devastated by an Israeli genocidal war for 15 months.
In this context, Safadi reaffirmed Amman’s continued commitment to supporting Palestinians through royal-directed efforts to provide as much assistance as possible to Gaza.
Safadi said Jordan seeks to work with the new US administration to advance peace efforts in the region, emphasizing Amman's firm stance that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must involve the Palestinians.
For their part, Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad denounced Trump's comments on transferring the Palestinian population in Gaza outside their land as "unacceptable" and "encouraging war crimes."
Jordan is already home to several million Palestinian refugees who were expelled from Historic Palestine by Zionist militias during the Nakba in 1948 and during the 1967 war between Israel and Arab countries.
This figure includes 2.4 million Palestinians registered as refugees with the United Nations.
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