PNN – US President Donald Trump, who had threatened Jordan and Egypt to cut off Washington’s financial aid if they did not agree to accept the Palestinians, backed off his threat after meeting with the King of Jordan.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, US President Donald Trump said that if Jordan or countries such as Egypt and other Arab countries cannot agree to accept more people from Gaza, the US will not cut off aid.
Trump said: I don’t need threats. I believe that we are above this. This statement of Trump contradicts his previous statements, which he announced that he may stop aid to these two countries due to the opposition of Jordan and Egypt to the implementation of his controversial plan for the withdrawal of Palestinians from Gaza.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II was repeatedly asked by reporters at the White House about Trump’s bold plan to rebuild the Middle East, but did not comment significantly on the matter or whether his country might host large numbers of Gazans.
Trump repeated his controversial idea that the United States might take control of Gaza, but said it would not require funding and would somehow become a reality.
The US president added that this would be possible “under the authority of the United States”, without elaborating further.
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Trump said about the control of the Gaza Strip by the United States: We don’t buy anything. We will own it. He claimed that the redeveloped area could have hotels, office buildings and new homes and we will make it exciting.
Trump’s controversial plan about Gaza
On January 25, the President of the United States put forward the plan to transfer the residents of Gaza to neighboring countries such as Egypt and Jordan, which faced negative reactions from both countries and other Arab countries and regional and international organizations, and sometime later, he put forward the plan to take over Gaza by the United States.
For the first time in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his first foreign guest, the President of the United States revealed the controversial plan for Gaza, which angered the Palestinians. He stressed that the Palestinians should leave Gaza and Egypt and Jordan should accept them.
Trump’s unprecedented, historic and unexpected statements on February 4, 2025 about Gaza that the United States should occupy, control, develop and maintain the war-torn Gaza and have “long-term ownership” in it have brought global reactions.
Critics argue that by presenting his plan, Trump not only supports ethnic cleansing in Gaza, but also violates the UN Charter of Human Rights by proposing to take it over by force.
The United States and Qatar announced on January 15, 2025 that Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement. This agreement came into effect on January 19, 2025, and its first phase will last for 6 weeks. During this stage, the implementation of the agreement will be negotiated in the second and then the third stage.
Israel, with the support of the United States, launched a devastating war against the residents of the Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023 to January 19, 2025, as a result of which, in addition to massive destruction and deadly famine, more than 157,000 Palestinians, most of whom are women and children, were martyred and injured, and more than 14,000 people went missing.