Social media accounts have published a video clip of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, in which he confirms that the arrival of refugees from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt is a red line, claiming that the statement was made following US President Donald Trump’s statements about what he called “cleansing” Gaza, and his call for Jordan and Egypt receiving Palestinians from Gaza. The video included the following text: “Breaking now, the King of Jordan responds to Trump: displacement is a red line.”
Kashif verified the video via “Google Images” and found that it is old. The clip is of a statement by King Abdullah II of Jordan during a press conference with the German Chancellor in Berlin in October 2023.
The Jordanian Kingdom Channel published the video on YouTube on 17/10/2023, accompanied by the following title: “The King: Displacing Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt is a red line. No refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt.” The channel indicated in the video description that the statement was made by the King during a press conference with the German Chancellor.
A statement issued by the Royal Hashemite Court on 17/10/2023 also reported that King Abdullah II held a meeting in Berlin with heads of parliamentary blocs and committees and heads and representatives of German institutions and research centers hosted by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and warned of the danger of measures that seek to push a new wave of refugees, stressing that the forced displacement of Palestinians from their lands will not be allowed because it portends disastrous effects on the countries of the region.
US President Donald Trump said regarding his call with King Abdullah on Saturday, 25/1/2025, “I told him I would like you to take more because I look at the entire Gaza Strip right now and it is in chaos, it is a real chaos. I would like him to take people.” He said: “I would like Egypt to take people as well,” adding that he would speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Donald Trump also said: “We’re talking about a million and a half people, and we’re clearing out the entire area.”
For his part, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi confirmed on 26/1/2025 that his country’s position rejecting the displacement of Palestinians remains firm, in response to what US President Donald Trump said about transferring more than a million people from the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Egypt.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced in a statement dated 26/1/2025 that Egypt stresses its rejection of any infringement on the rights of the Palestinian people, whether through settlement, annexation of land, or by evacuating that land of its owners through displacement or encouraging the transfer of Palestinians from their land, whether temporarily or long-term, in a way that threatens stability and portends further extension of the conflict to the region, and undermines the chances of peace and coexistence among its peoples.
Hamas confirmed in a statement on 26/1/2025 that “the Palestinian people, who have stood firm in the face of the most heinous acts of genocide and refused to surrender to displacement, categorically reject any plans to deport and displace them.”
The Palestinian presidency also expressed, in a statement on 26/1/2025, its rejection of projects to displace Palestinians in Gaza, considering this a “crossing of red lines.”