Displaced people arrive in Gaza City after crossing the crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street. AFP
Asked for a reaction to Trump's comments, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Berlin shared the view of "the European Union, our Arab partners, the United Nations ... that the Palestinian population must not be expelled from Gaza and Gaza must not be permanently occupied or recolonized by Israel."
The US leader on Saturday floated an idea to "clean out" Gaza after more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas had reduced the Palestinian territory to a "demolition site."
He said the displacement of Gazans to neighbouring Egypt and Jordan could be done "temporarily or could be long term."
Jordan already hosts 2.3 million Palestinian refugees and has repeatedly rejected any project aiming to make the kingdom an "alternative homeland."
For Palestinians, any attempt to move them from Gaza would evoke dark memories of what the Arab world calls the "Nakba" (or catastrophe) — the mass displacement of Palestinians during Israel's creation in 1948.
Egypt has previously warned against any "forced displacement" of Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai desert, and on Sunday rejected any infringement of Palestinians' "inalienable rights... whether temporarily or long-term."
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