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Watch live as Donald Trump faces a potential showdown with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday, 11 February, as he welcomes the royal to the White House for the first time since the US president floated the idea of moving Gaza’s population to Jordan.
The Republican has threatened that he may withhold aid to Jordan, a key US ally, and Egypt if they do not take in Palestinian refugees.
It comes after Mr Trump unveiled his proposal for American “ownership” of Gaza during a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week.
The US president is expected to bring up the plan in his meeting with King Abdullah.
Both the Jordanian and Egyptian governments have thus far rejected the idea of taking in more Palestinian refugees, and Netanyahu himself has not gone so far as to rule out a right of return for Palestinians displaced from Gaza.
But Trump has said there’d be no need for them to return to Gaza because they would be housed in what he told Fox News host Bret Baier would be “safe communities, a little bit away from where they are, where all of this danger is.”
“In the meantime, I would own this. Think of it as a real-estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land. No big money spent,” he said.
