Report: Trump furthers program for Palestinian refugees in Arab countries
Fatah sources told the newspaper that “Trump informed several Arab
countries that the plan will include Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.”
US President Donald Trump announced to several Arab countries that at
the beginning of 2019 he will disclose a citizenship plan for
Palestinian refugees living in those countries, the London-based website
Al-Khaled reported on Tuesday.
Fatah sources told the newspaper that “Trump informed several Arab
countries that the plan will include Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.” The
source said that “the big surprise will be that these countries have
already agreed to naturalize Palestinian refugees.”
Palestinian sources reported that a delegation of senior US officials
headed by Jared Kushner is expected to arrive in several Arab countries
in the coming weeks to seriously discuss the American initiative,
including the tools to implement it, number of refugees, required
expenses, and the logistics demanded from hosting countries for
supervising the process of “naturalization of refugees.”
According to the report, Arab countries have already updated Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the program hours after the
cessation of UNRWA’s founding, on August 31. “This is the third step in
Trump’s deal of the century, following the transfer of the US embassy to
Jerusalem and the cuts in UNRWA’s funds,” Arab officials said.
The sources said that Trump will use significant and tempting economical
assistance in order to obtain the consent of host countries, which in
Israel it was already welcomed and sponsored, the website reported.
The sources also added that “Jordan is currently the only one out of the
three countries that will oppose the initiative due to its
steadfastness in recent years on the return of Palestinian refugees to
the lands from which they were expelled 70 years ago, and its refusal to
enable their settlement on Jordanian land.”
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