U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintain a joint press convention within the East Room on the White Home in Washington, U.S., Feb. 4, 2025.
Leah Millis | Reuters
Egypt introduced Sunday that it’ll host an emergency Arab summit on Feb. 27 to debate “new and harmful developments” after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
Trump’s suggestion, made at a White Home assembly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu final week, infuriated the Arab world, together with Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia — key allies of Washington.
Each Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Jordanian King Abdullah II dismissed Trump’s name to resettle 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza and for the U.S. to take possession of the enclave, however Trump claims that they might ultimately settle for it.
An announcement from Egypt’s Overseas Ministry stated it might host the Arab League summit in Cairo following talks on the highest stage in Arab nations in latest days, “together with the state of Palestine that requested to carry the summit with a purpose to talk about new and harmful developments for the Palestinian trigger.”
