US President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that Egypt and Jordan would accept displaced people from Gaza, despite the two Arab countries’ rejection of his plan to relocate Palestinians from the Strip.

Trump’s comments came after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II rejected any forced relocation of Gaza residents following the war between Hamas and Israel. When asked about his response to the Egyptian and Jordanian rejections, and whether he was considering imposing tariffs on the two countries to force them to do so, Trump replied. “They will. We do a lot for them and they will,’ he said.

‘The deportation and displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice that we cannot take part in,’ Al-Sisi said at a press conference in Cairo on Wednesday.
Separately, King Abdullah II reiterated Jordan’s ‘firm position on the need for the Palestinians to stabilise on their land and achieve their legitimate rights in accordance with the two-state solution’.