Jordan, Egypt unlikely to take in more Palestinian refugees despite Trump’s threats: Analyst United States President Donald Trump said he might withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree to take in Palestinian refugees.

In fact, that’s the very reason the US supported the creation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( Unrwa) in 1949. Though its purpose today is very different, it was originally intended as a tool to permanently resettle the Palestinians outside Palestine.

By Muhammad Al Gebaly and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's widely condemned plan to displace Palestinians in Gaza and take control of the enclave.

U.S. President Donald Trump has intensified pressure on Arab nations, particularly U.S. allies Jordan and Egypt, to accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza. Amid ongoing tensions in the region, Trump suggested he might withhold U.

The Oslo negotiations of the 1990s rejected the notion of removing Palestinians from Gaza. In fact, keeping the refugees in Gaza was central to the premise of a two-state solution. At the same time, questions over the right of refugees to return to their original homelands in what is now Israel were shelved.