CBS News: U.S. and Israel Pressure East African Nations to Accept Palestinian Refugees
March 17, 2025The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, as potential places to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the effort.
The idea of Palestinian resettlement in another country is one of several options the Trump team is chewing over as part of the U.S. president’s larger goal of ending Israel’s “war with Hamas”in Gaza and rebuilding the devastated Palestinian enclave.
“Nobody is expelling any Palestinians,”President Trump said Wednesday, when the Irish Prime Minister was asked during the two leaders’ Oval Office meeting by a Voice of America reporter about the president’s controversial remarks in February when he suggested taking ownership of Gaza to rebuild it.
Mr. Trump made the remarks during a Feb. 4 press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying Gaza could be the “Riviera of the Middle East.””
“ We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this, and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction,”Mr. Trump said.
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