Like most Palestinians, Hatem Azzam, a resident of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, was incensed by US President Donald Trump's remarks suggesting Gazans should relocate to Egypt or Jordan.
Like most Palestinians, Hatem Azzam, a resident of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, was incensed by US President Donald Trump's remarks suggesting Gazans should relocate to Egypt or Jordan.
Both Egypt and Jordan have flatly rejected Trump's idea, as have Gazans and other neighbouring countries. Ihab Ahmed, another Rafah resident, deplored that Trump and Netanyahu"still don't understand the Palestinian people" and their attachment to the land. "I expect Netanyahu's visit to Trump to reflect his future plans to forcibly displace the Palestinian people and redraw the Middle East," he said.Behind him, rows of tents provided by charity organisations line a patch of land at the foot of concrete buildings whose facades still bear marks of war: bullet holes, blown away windows and facades stripped of their stone finishing.