Egypt and Jordan have both warned against Palestinians being forced off their land. Read more at straitstimes.com.
as a conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has escalated have drawn a blunt reaction from Arab neighbours.
For Palestinians, the idea of leaving or being forced out of land where they want to forge a state carries echoes of the"Nakba", or"catastrophe",Some 700,000 Palestinians, half the Arab population of what was British-ruled Palestine, fled or were driven from their homes, many spilling into neighbouring Arab states where they or many of their descendants remain. Many still live in refugee camps.
The head of the 22-member Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, urgently appealed to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to condemn"this insane Israeli effort to transfer the population". "The UN should be praising Israel for these precautionary actions," Mr Erdan told UN diplomats at the Israel-hosted event."For years, the U.N. has put its head in the sand in the face of Hamas's terror build-up in Gaza."The fate of Palestinian refugees is one of the thorniest issues in the moribund peace process. Palestinians and Arab states say a deal should include the right of those refugees and their descendants to return, something Israel has always rejected.
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