Spain rejects Israel’s suggestion it should accept Palestinians from Gaza
Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has rejected the suggestion by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz that Spain should accept displaced Palestinians from Gaza.
“Gazans’ land is Gaza and Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state,” Albares said in an interview with Spanish radio station RNE.
Ireland rejects Israel’s suggestion it should accept Palestinians from Gaza
Ireland’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a suggestion by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz that the country should accept displaced Palestinians from Gaza.
“The objective must be a massive scale-up of aid into Gaza, return of basic services and a clear framework under which those displaced can return,” the ministry said in an emailed statement to the Reuters news agency. “Any comments to the contrary are unhelpful and a source of distraction.”
As we have reported earlier, Katz ordered Israel’s army to ready a plan designed so that Gaza residents can emigrate to locations which agree to absorb them, naming Spain, Ireland and Norway as potential destinations.
Last year, Ireland, Norway and Spain recognised Palestine as an independent state, prompting Israeli anger.
UK will oppose any effort to displace Palestinians from Gaza: Minister
The United Kingdom will oppose any efforts to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to neighbouring Arab countries against their will, according to Anneliese Dodds, the UK’s minister of state for international development.
“There must be no forced displacement of Palestinians, nor any reduction in the territory of the Gaza Strip,” Dodds told Parliament.
Her comments come after President Donald Trump announced a plan to take over the Gaza Strip and forcibly remove Palestinians from the besieged enclave.
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