The United States, Israel interested in Sudan, Somalia and Syria to resettle Ghazan, the sources say

The Trump and Israel administration contacted the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and was also interested in Syria, as possible places to resettle the Palestinians from Gaza, according to three sources familiar with this effort.

The idea of ​​Palestinian resettlement in another country is one of the many options that the Trump team overlooks as part of the great goal of the American President of ending the Israeli war with Hamas in Gaza and rebuilding the destroyed Palestinian pocket.

President Trump said on Wednesday when the Irish Prime Minister was asked during the meeting of the Casablanca Office of the Cables by the American Voice correspondent about the president’s controversial observations in February:

Mr. Trump made the statements during a press conference on February 4 alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that Gaza could be it “Riviera from the Middle East.“

“We must go to other countries of importance with human hearts, and there are many of them who want to do so, and to build the various fields that will be occupied by 1.8 million Palestinians who live in Gaza, and end death and destruction.”

A mixture of Israeli and American officials that were connected to Sudan and Somalia, two diplomatic sources of CBS News were confirmed. Senior right -wing Israeli government officials Contact has already been For Palestinians to migrate from the pocket. One of the sources said that Mr. Trump’s statements had only brought Israel to reach other countries to explore the opportunities for Palestinian resettlement.

Three sources said to the idea of ​​Mr. Trump to resettle Ghazan to another country for CBS News that his administration and Israel are also interested in Syria. One of the sources familiar with the Middle East policy told the Trump administration that the administration had tried to communicate with the new interim government in Syria through a third party. Another source from the region told CBS News that the Syrian government had been dealt with, but it was not clear whether there was any response from Syria to communication.

A senior Syrian official told CBS News that they were unaware of any communication with their government by Israel or the United States about the resettlement of Ghazan.

“The American administration or the Israeli authorities have not approached the Somali government regarding any proposed transfer to the Palestinians to Somalia.” Hassan also pointed out that “the deployment of such an uninterrupted information risk providing advertising with employment to extremist groups such as ISIS and youth, which may exacerbate security challenges in the region.”

The Sudanese government did not respond to the CBS News request for comment.

The interim government in Syria is only three months old, after that Bashar al -Assad overthrew And its brutal system that carries an iron grip on the Syrian people for decades. The State of Sudan is currently involved in the northeastern Sudan in the civil war and the refugee crisis, while it suffers from pockets from famine. Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees have sought to obtain asylum in Israel over the past two decades, only to be held in desert detention centers in the country or the left to live without any official status. The Somalia state in East Africa is a fragile country and a former failure, as the Islamic Armed Group continues to launch the deadly rebellion.

Since his press conference on February 4, Mr. Trump suggested that the Palestinians have an option to leave, but they also indicated that their departure from Gaza may be always. in Fox News interview After several days, he said: “We will build beautiful societies, safe societies, can be five or six years, they can be. But we will build a little safe societies from the place they are (the Palestinians).” In the same interview, it is He said The Palestinians will not have the right to return to Gaza according to his plan because the pocket is “not valid for housing” and will not be for years to come.

United Nations It was mentioned in January More than 90 % of the housing units in Gaza were either damaged or destroyed 1.9 million invading civilians. The Ministry of Health in Gaza says that more than 48,000 Palestinians were killed in the war between Israel and Hamas, which started after the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, when Hamas killed more than 1,000 Israelis and took about 100 hostages.

Soon, many Arab governments, the United Nations, and some democratic legislators were exaggerated by Mr. Trump from emptying Gaza as an ethnic cleansing. Instead, Arab leaders approved an alternative construction plan after the war in Gaza last week, but the Trump administration and Israel were both Fast rejection This, indicating that the Gaza Strip is not subject to housing.

The administration of former President Joe Biden was sending US officials on a regular basis to meet the new Syrian government in Damascus in the period before the inauguration of Mr. Trump when the visits stopped. The new leader of Syria, Ahmed Al -Sharra, previously known as Abu Muhammad al -Jolani, was quickly in condemning the statements of Mr. Trump in February, saying that the US President’s plan “is a serious crime You will fail in the end“It is not clear what the Trump administration’s comprehensive policy will be towards the new Syrian government.

“The Trump administration must engage directly with the new government in Damascus, especially after the agreement between Damascus and SDF (the Syrian -governmental Syrian democratic forces). To ensure that Iran does not once again acquire a foothold in Syria, for the real defeat, and to conduct a full withdrawal from the United States, fine. The Syrian Emergency Action Squad in Washington, based in Washington, told CBS News.

Israel has conducted large air strikes in Syria since December, according to what he described as arms sites, the Assad regime, and seized lands in the buffer zone between the two countries. Last week, Israel struck inside a suburb of Damascus, saying that it was coming out of the Islamic Jihad headquarters, a militant group backed by Iran with a large foothold in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been postponed to the Israeli government, and he told CBS News that Steve Witkev’s Middle East envoy “continues to work without either the extension of the first phase (from the Israeli agreement of Hamas) or progress in the second stage of these principles.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also indicated notes from Witkoff from A. Fox Fox News interview In which he said, “We need to explore new political recipes that end up in a better life for conquest and the Palestinians.”

Witkoff also suggested in the Fox interview itself that the entire Palestinian population of Gaza can go to other Arab countries based in the Middle East and other countries outside the region: “I think the president’s solution is: How can we deal with what two million people can go to? I think the clear answers are: you.”

When asked about “Face The Nation” on Sunday about whether the Trump administration is talking to other countries about the transfer of two million Palestinians in Gaza, He said Wittouf again “I think we are exploring, Margaret, all alternatives and options that lead to a better life for conquest. By the way, for the people of Israel. So we explore all these things.”

Millions of Palestinians are already displaced in the surrounding Arab countries as refugees, including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. The Israeli ministers have increasingly called the extremist extremists to transport the Palestinians in Gaza and also in the West Bank from their lands as part of the extremist view, they will make a biblical demand by the Jews to the land and increase the security of Israel.

The Israeli government, the White House and the National Security Council refused to respond to the multiple requests of CBS news for comment.

Trump’s son -in -law and former counselor Jared Kushner first suggested that “the drug in Gaza can be of great value, if people will focus on building livelihoods” during a discussion on the camera at Harvard University in February 2024.

The Associated Press was the first to Friday report The United States and Israel have contacted Sudan and Somalia, as well as Somalia, on resettlement of the Palestinians from Gaza.

Emmet Lyons

He contributed to this report.