Palestine, Jordan, Egypt welcome US pullback from Gaza displacement plan

Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt welcomed US President Donald Trump’s retreat from his previous plan of displacing the more than 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

In a statement issued by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the US retreat is an “encouraging step” and in the “right direction,”



hoping it would lead to a political process based on international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative.

Abu Rudeineh also stressed the importance of continued Palestinian-Arab coordination, which he said could support an Arab-led vision for Gaza reconstruction and a political process that ensures the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital