Cairo [Egypt], January 30: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi said on Wednesday his country will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, days after US President Donald Trump suggested Arab countries take in Palestinian refugees from the war-torn Gaza Strip.
"Deportation and displacement of the Palestinian people is an injustice in which we cannot participate," el-Sisi said in Cairo, in his first public remarks on Trump's call.
El-Sisi said that if he asked the Egyptian people to accept the displacement of Palestinians, "they would all take to the street and tell me not to participate in injustice," he said at a televised joint press conference with visiting Kenyan President William Ruto.
The issue affects the security of Egypt, which borders the densely populated Gaza Strip, el-Sisi said. He added that Egypt is keen on working with Trump in achieving peace based on the two-state solution.
Egypt, a US ally, was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
Earlier this month, Egypt along with the United States and Qatar brokered another ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement after months of on-and-off negotiations.
Source: Qatar Tribune
