US President Donald Trump said that Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from Gaza when he spoke to reporters on Saturday.
Trump said he spoke about the matter with Jordan’s King Abdullah on the phone earlier in the day and told him that the Gaza Strip is currently a “real mess.”
He said that he told King Abdullah during the call, “I’d love you [Jordan] to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza strip right now, and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess. I’d like him to take people.”
“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump also said to the reporter. He added that he planned on speaking to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.
The phone call with King Abdullah came on the same day that second prisoner-hostage exchange took place, in which four female Israeli soldiers were returned to Israel after spending 477 days in Hamas captivity.
Delegation of 70 prisoners arrive in Cario
In exchange, 114 Palestinian prisoners were released from Ofer Prison and were brought to Ramallah, 16 were taken to Gaza, and 70 were deported to Egypt.
The 70 Palestinian prisoners that were released to Egypt arrived in Cairo during the early hours of Sunday morning, where they were received by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad delegations, Hamas and Al Araby reported.
This article was originally published at www.jpost.com
